Thread: 2012 Coding Competition
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2012-06-06 , 10:01
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Thanks everyone for the continued discussion, it's great to see so many new posts Sorry for not getting back quicker yesterday, it was a busy day... phew!

Originally Posted by leon.anavi View Post
The number of excellent developers far exceeds the number of excellent apps on the market. No every experienced developer is able to make a killer app In my opinion the idea behind the app makes the difference.
Absolutely agree We're had newbies right at the top before, so don't be put off if you feel you are inexperienced! It's not always the slickest or most functional app that wins, but a great idea will always get you very far

Originally Posted by qwazix View Post
It seems that the majority wants the mp award out the door. So let's kick it out.
Ok, we're in agreement Sayonara multi-platform award - you'll have another time, another place

My point about the timeframe is that as we can't police when or how coding started we should just limit the submissions to apps not already published. This does give a head start to people that decided to start develpoment early without releasing anything but I don't think we can do much about it.
Right qwazix, that's the truth of it. As we've done in the previous two competitions, we'll consider all newly released apps within the competition timeframe as 'new'.

Originally Posted by beresk_let View Post
And what about "categories/no categories/what categories and how to distribute devices between them" discussion?
It's ongoing, keep the feedback coming This still seems to be the best solution if we want a smaller number of categories and device distribution.

1. Desktop, System & Utilities (2 N950, 2 N9)
2. Games, Graphics & Multimedia (2 M950, 2 N9)
3. Network & Communications (2 N950, 2 N9)
4. Location & Navigation (2 N950, 2 N9)
5. Other (2 N950, 2 N9)
6. Updates to existing apps (3 N9)
7. Beginners (made up of entries from categories 1-5) (2 N9)

However i take on board the comments from beginners like yourself and computerinfo21 that although you can compete for N950's with everyone else there isn't any assigned specifically for beginners only. We have 10 N950s, at the beginning we had the idea of 10 categories. Now we've lowered the number of categories it gets tricky how to divide these up. I've reached out to see if there is a possibility of swapping a N9 from our allocation for another N950 from the community device program. It doesn't hurt to ask, so we'll see if that can be done

BTW there is opposition to the above so if that's what you want, show your support for it. It'll be much more likely to happen if the community are seen to be behind the idea.

-- off topic
Originally Posted by kojacker View Post
One of my first projects with the N950 was a sms pet feeder (don't hate me, I'm into physical computing) where the app, running on the N950, would process an incoming SMS message and if it found the trigger word would turn on a DIY pet feeder via arduino over Bluetooth.
Also BTW if anyone is interested in this project I mentioned earlier in the thread, I'm a volunteer at a local youth centre twice a month teaching (ie. playing about with) mobile dev and electronics and we did a version of this project yesterday. You can check out our silly project on youtube or on my site
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SMSPetFeeder - Build a Bluetooth/SMS dog feeder with Qt, N950, and arduino
Nerf950 - Use your N9/N950 to fire a Nerf gun
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