Niall Ross has forwarded information on the upcoming Coding Contest for the 2008 Smalltalk Solutions conference. The summary: if you wanted to participate in previous years, but did not have time, this might be your year - Niall has set up a longer interval to work in:

This year's Smalltalk Coding Contest is approaching, perhaps faster than you think. :-)

In the past, the time allowed for the Smalltalk Coding Competition entry task has been short:

• 2 days for Alan's questionnaire web app in 2005
• 63 hours for Michael's Pong in 2006
• 10 days, including 2 weekends, for Andres' memory game in 2007

Not everyone has a schedule that lets them enter when the time window is short. I have decided to go for a longer timespan. The contest entry task will be announced on Monday March 10th at 20:00 GMT on http://www.stic.st You then have the rest of the next 3 months to complete it. Solutions must be submitted by Friday May 30th 12:00 GMT.

A longer timescale does not mean a proportionately more challenging task (the idea is to let you complete it in the time without giving up your day job or your holidays) though I trust doing it well will prove a challenge.

Interested? More news on this will come out within the next day or two, both here and on the STIC site.

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