This sounds interesting... I am not familiar enought with PHP-GTK to give an informed opinion. I think your decision should be based on how familiar with the tools you take into the contest. Since you are not face with a lot of time, will your competition be using Visual IDEs to aid the rapid development?
You may wnat to post to one of the php-gtk-* lists. They may be able to address your needs in more detail. Good luck!! If you choose to use PHP, please post the results of the contest to the list. It should be interesting. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Visontay Peter" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Friday, April 19, 2002 7:43 PM Subject: [PHP] PHP @ 24-hour programming competition > Hi! > > I have quite an unusual problem for you :) There will be a 24-hour > programming competition at our university, where teams of 3 have one > day to solve a complex problem (which will be revealed on the day > of the competition). Teams cannot get help from "outside", so no outward > network / phone communication is available, but you can use anything you > take there with you (any development tools, books, pre-written software > etc.) > > The language in which you write the software is up to you, the most > popular choices being C++ and Java - but this year our team are going > to use PHP (and PHP-GTK). > > The big question is: will PHP be enough for the whole project, or will > we need something else (like external C/Java modules)? > Last year the task was to write an artificially intelligent soccer game > based on a client-server architecture: there was a server acting like > some kind of game controller (referee) and 2D display screen, while > the automated clients (players) were playing individually according > to the game's rules and some simulated information on what they 'see' > at the time. > > It's said that it will be something quite different this year - > but required knowledge includes: > algorithm theory, information and code theory, artificial intelligence, > queuing, databases, client-server architectures, computer networks, > control theory, 2D graphic programming and software ergonomy. > All this in 24 hours - nice, eh? :) > > So the question again - are there any parts of all this where you think > PHP will not be enough? (Apart from the graphics, for which we'll use > PHP-GTK). If so, what kind of outside module integration do you > recommend for us? > Also, which PHP sites / resources / code libraries do you think we should > (recursively) download which might help us a lot? (Apart from php.net, > of course.) > > We're really interested in your opinions - is this feasible or > are we just plain mad? :) > > Thanks, > Peter Visontay > http://prodigycenter.com/cv/ > > > > -- > PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) > To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php > -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
