From: langtons AT NOTTHISBIT DOT manawatu DOT gen DOT nz (Michael Langton)
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Subject: Re: Programming contest: suggestions?
Date: Sat, 11 Jul 1998 10:29:25 GMT
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Hello,
>John Meyer wrote:
>> 
>> Hi, I'm set to run a programming contest in a few weeks and I was wondering
>> if any of you have any suggestions on how to run it.   I use C/C++, Pascal,
>> QBASIC, and Visual Basic, and the idea is I give them an idea for a
>> program, and the best one wins.  What criteria should I use, and how should
>> I promote it.
Well, what sort of ideas did you have in mind?  Graphics, maths,
sorting, etc. are all possible areas...

As to promoting it, try posting to comp.programming.contests.

cu...
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  Michael Langton <langtons DOT NOTTHISBIT AT manawatu DOT gen DOT nz>