hi Stefan, * Stefan Behnel <stefan...@behnel.de> [2013-01-29 08:00]: > Michael Torrie, 29.01.2013 02:15: > > On 01/28/2013 03:46 PM, Malcolm McCrimmon wrote: > >> My company recently hosted a programming competition for schools > >> across the country. One team made it to the finals using the Python > >> client, one of the four default clients provided (I wrote it). Most > >> of the other teams were using Java or C#. Guess which team won? > >> > >> http://www.windward.net/codewar/2013_01/finals.html > > We did a similar (although way smaller) contest once at a university. The > task was to write a network simulator. We had a C team, a Java team and a > Python team, four people each. The Java and C people knew their language, > the Python team just started learning it. > > The C team ended up getting totally lost and failed. The Java team got most > things working ok and passed. The Python team got everything working, but > additionally implemented a web interface for the simulator that monitored > and visualised its current state. They said it helped them with debugging. quite interesting! I'd liked to see the code is it available for 'download'?
thx Michael > > > > What language was the web page hosted in? It comes up completely blank > > for me. :) > > Yep, same here. Hidden behind a flash wall, it seems. > > Stefan > > > -- > http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list -- Michael Poeltl Computational Materials Physics voice: +43-1-4277-51409 Univ. Wien, Sensengasse 8/12 fax: +43-1-4277-9514 (or 9513) A-1090 Wien, AUSTRIA cmp.mpi.univie.ac.at ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- slackware-13.37 | vim-7.3 | python-3.2.3 | mutt-1.5.21 | elinks-0.12 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list