Scratch

How'd it go?

Here's what happened: (it's disappointing)
Day 1: We get to the venue. Epic opening ceremony with a 3D laser show and rock band. We go to the comp lab for the competition. We get 4 tasks:
- A quiz
- A Crossword
- In this one, the junior (me) had to invert the colors of an image and embed it in HTML; while the senior had to crack a substitution cipher. Nobody solved the cipher, I got the image in 20 seconds flat.
- Here the senior had many easy coding challenges. The junior (me) had to play Little Fighter 2, some cheap Chinese game with Chinese instructions. I was obliterated.

- Day 2: Had to make a game in a new language, GML. We made pong.

Hardmath123 wrote:

Here's what happened: (it's disappointing)
Day 1: We get to the venue. Epic opening ceremony with a 3D laser show and rock band. We go to the comp lab for the competition. We get 4 tasks:
- A quiz
- A Crossword
- In this one, the junior (me) had to invert the colors of an image and embed it in HTML; while the senior had to crack a substitution cipher. Nobody solved the cipher, I got the image in 20 seconds flat.
- Here the senior had many easy coding challenges. The junior (me) had to play Little Fighter 2, some cheap Chinese game with Chinese instructions. I was obliterated.

- Day 2: Had to make a game in a new language, GML. We made pong.

Chinese instructions?! *faints*

How I hate Chinese anyway...

Anyway, the worst bit was the in the final round the other team literally copied the manual word-by-word and got the sample game. They won. 

Hardmath123 wrote:

Anyway, the worst bit was the in the final round the other team literally copied the manual word-by-word and got the sample game. They won. 

The heck... D:

blob8108 wrote:

Hardmath123 wrote:

Here's what happened: (it's disappointing)

Meh. The competition you originally described sounded awesome! 

NOT when you code on a Windows 98 with a CRT monitor that took 4 minutes to boot.

the senior had to crack a substitution cipher. Nobody solved the cipher

I don't suppose you can/it would be worth posting the cipher for us all to attempt to solve?

They gave a passage and the encrypted text. The solution had something to do with putting the words in a "crossword"...

Last edited by Hardmath123 (2012-08-29 21:07:16)