Update on 10th Anniversary Contest - by Brad Moore

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As most of you know by now the Liberty Basic 10 year Anniversary programming contest is well underway. We are about halfway through the first phase, the time when contestants submit their entries for consideration for judging. I am happy to report that there has been considerable interest and quite a few entries have been submitted. That is great news, because we all are winners in this contest because of the excellent ideas and programs that are created.

There still is about a month to go before the files section is shut tight and the judging will begin. I encourage everyone, regardless of what you believe your skill level is to join. What is at stake is a couple free registrations to Liberty Basic. Just joining may make you a winner, as I have heard several already registered users say they will pass their prize on down to the best scoring non-registered user of Liberty Basic 3 should they win. This contest is not limited to just registered users - so get those minds cranking and those programs running - we want to see what you have!

Along that same vein - I have made a small correction to the contest rules. Here is the post I made on Sat Dec 7, 2002 concerning those rule changes:

I am going to make a slight (ever so slight) modification to the contest rules. The contest (check it out at http://groups.yahoo.com/group/lbcontest/ ) states that you are to upload BOTH a bas file and a tkn file. One of the hopes I had was that newer programmers would enter the contest, and that was one of the reasons I ask Carl to offer an LB registration or two as a prize (A big thanks to Carl!).

Well I am here sitting and thinking and it occurs to me that some people might not actually be registered who want to enter the contest to win a free registration. Those people could not compile a bas into a tkn. Also all the silver level owners of LB3.02 can not create tkn's. So...

The rule change is: If the file will run on the trial version of LB (the shareware version) then the submission does not need to have an tkn to accompany it. Unfortunately this leaves the Silver level people in a difficult position. They can write big programs that do not run on the trial version, but they can not compile them so that they can have a tkn. The rule is there so that people who are not registered can try out the entries and vote on them. Silver user programs my not be testable by unregistered users.

Those Silver owners who have written big programs but can not create
tokenized versions should place a comment to that regard in the top of their code so that we can understand why there is not tkn file. We will have to deal with these one way or another - but we will cross that bridge later.

If you are an unregistered user and run into a bas that you can not run in the contest files area and there is no accompanying tkn file, please let me know.

Thanks.

Brad.


 

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Extracting Icons And Saving Them As Bitmaps
Applying Symbolic Logic
QuadClicks
Simple Math For Moving Objects
Event Driven Programming - Part 2
The Beginners Series - Part 1