I was having a browse of the practice problems of Google's Code Jam and it strikes me that it would be useful to have a competition toolset for common tasks like:
* interactively parsing text input data into objects
* dealing with test cases
* visualizing the input and output data to help cognitively understand the problem & solution.
* producing a source code list in a suitable form for submission

[1] https://code.google.com/codejam/contest/32003/dashboard#s=p0

cheers -ben


On Fri, Mar 24, 2017 at 7:30 AM, Ben Coman <btc@openinworld.com> wrote:
> It certainly makes a quantifiable measure of performance.
> cheers -ben
>
> On Fri, Mar 24, 2017 at 12:57 AM, askoh <askoh@askoh.com> wrote:
>> Being able to shine in software competitions is a very good way for Smalltalk
>> to get exposure. We should present our technologies as such competitions as
>> much as possible. Enjoy the case below.
>> http://www.cincomsmalltalk.com/main/2017/03/one-cincom-engineer-got-450-programmers-bite-smalltalk/
>>
>> Aik-Siong Koh
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