Another X-mas Coding Contest?

tntcoder · 24 Nov 2011 at 23:46

Would enough people be interested in another December programming contest this year? Last years one was fairly successful and had enough people involved to make it worthwhile.

I can probably think something up but if anyone else has a good theme or any topic suggestions then go for it!

tntcoder · 26 Nov 2011 at 11:42

Ok cool

will try to think up some ideas!

tntcoder · 28 Nov 2011 at 14:29

I'm actually struggling for ideas tbh

Unless i just copy the format of last years with some new problems, not sure...

tntcoder · 30 Nov 2011 at 10:36

Really sorry guys I'm gonna have to pass on organizing this year due to lack of time

I've been trying to put something together but it seems to be taking significantly longer that last year. It's difficult to find enough algorithmic/computational based problems that have some element of originality and don't require a maths degree to understand

I think ideally the problems need to match the difficultly of last year so that they fit to a wide enough audience.

Really hope someone else can pick it up though

Or if all else fails hopefully I will get a free weekend to plan it some more. I really like the path finding idea suggested above but it might be too complex to have as a single problem to solve.