to markup differences between two documents. I tried it is CF and it worked
but was deadly slow. Would be neat to have a version that ran reasonably
quickly.
Another interesting idea might be a poetry / haiku generator. Or simulations
of simple things. E.g. I wrote a very basic and rather crappy text cat
simulator a while back. Had lots of ideas for version 2 (i.e. cats learn to
recognize different people, and respond based on whether people tend to feed
them, play with them, whatever.). Quite fun to do. :-)
I've often thought a text-based virtual forest where people come and plant
trees might be interesting..but not really a competition.
-----Original Message-----
From: Michael T. Tangorre [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Tuesday, 6 April 2004 1:06 p.m.
To: CF-Talk
Subject: RE: ColdFusion Coding Contest
> I don't get it. What's the relevance of taking a text-book
> algorithm from
> CS101 and coding it in CF?
>
> Forget relevance. It's not even interesting.
Actually it is one of the best ways to not only learn, but learn a variety
of approaches to a single problem. A lot of the assignments we did in
college (Kevin and I went to college together) were not always interesting,
in fact some were down right boring, but the lessons you learn along with
being able to see different approaches to solving problems was the desired
result. We did problems like a water billing program in Fortran, which was
not very interesting, but definitely helped us learn some more concepts and
put them into practice.
The idea behind the CF Coding contests are to do nothing more than give
people an opportunity to challenge themselves and eachother and hopefully
walk away knowing a little more then when they began; its all positive and
no one says you have to participate.
With that being said, anyone got suggestions for the next contest? :-)
Mike
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