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I saw a post the other day where someone was asking for programming ideas. Why doesn't perl monks offer a weekly, bi-weekly, or monthly "quest" for those interested? It could be broken into several different catagories, ie initiates- acolytes, scribe- friar, and abbot and up. After the quest has been placed, people could discuss ideas for creating the code, and even post some solutions after the quest time frame has ended. It would give those of us with way to much time on our hands (and way too little knowledge) something to learn. I know challenges have been put out here before- I read about one of them in one of merlyn's columns. Anyway it is just a thought. |
Re: Coding Ideas
by arhuman (Vicar) on Mar 11, 2001 at 19:13 UTC
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This 'quest' section already exists,
and I'm happy to see I'm not the only one waiting for a new quest
(Vroom !!!what are you doing ;-)
But Anyway I'm a 'challenge' fan, so whatever we the name(quest/contest/workshop)
It's a good idea...
To give my 2 cents idea on a quest :
It would be fun to define and code the tests that a decent crypto-system should pass
to be more than crackable-by-my-sister.
(I had this idea after seeing some crypto stuff here being downvoted
beccause they weren't not strong enough)
There are several objectives :
1) Use Perl !(Of course)
2) Stop the spread of 'hey what do you think about my new XOR crypto-system?'
3) Learn from other (Tilly,Wombat I know you'll help here...)
4) Try to bring new Ideas on coding/crypto
5) Show newcomers the basics and pitfalls of simple crypto-systems.
I repeat it : the goal IS NOT to make a new crypto system, BUT define and code the (minimal) test a wanabe crypto-system should pass to be decent.
"Trying to be a SMART lamer" (thanx to Merlyn ;-)
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