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Program of the Year Voting Opens
Posted by Michael on 2 December 2003, 10:18 GMT

Sample POTY WinnerWe all know how many people missed the Program of the Month awards that were previously held. Well now there's something even more prestigious: the 2003 Program of the Year award. Throughout the month of December, featured programs from throughout the year will be classified by calculator in weekly surveys. Simply vote for your favorite program! Every Monday a new survey will be posted with a different set of programs. The results will be hidden until all the winners are determined.

The ticalc.org 2003 Programs of the Year will be announced early January once all the results have been tabulated. As before with the POTM winning programs, a specialized screenshot will be provided for the winners. Good luck to all contestants!

Update (Morgan): This is only relevant because there are two Mario pictures on this article, but for anyone that has ever played the original Super Mario Brothers 3 on NES and thought you were good, you need to see this!

Update (Joey): The poll for the 68k calculators has been posted.

 


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Re: Program of the Year Voting Opens
Joe Pemberton  Account Info
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What are the groups? 83/83+, 85/86, 82 and the 68k calcs?

     2 December 2003, 18:09 GMT

Re: Re: Program of the Year Voting Opens
no_one_2000_  Account Info
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Probably just each calc has it's own. Are they doing 80 and 81? ;-)

     3 December 2003, 21:01 GMT


Re: Re: Program of the Year Voting Opens
Joey Gannon  Account Info
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The plan was 82/83/83+, 85/86, and 68k, though there are no 82 or 85 progs featured this year, and only one 86.

     5 December 2003, 03:34 GMT

Re: Program of the Year Voting Opens
jordan krage  Account Info

does it have to be released this year?
or does the first one include all programs in archives?

-jordan
btw-snood should win for 83+

     2 December 2003, 21:39 GMT


Re: Re: Program of the Year Voting Opens
angelboy Account Info
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Yes, it has to be released this year.
Yahoo!! I just got third in the VICA C++ programming competition. Yay!!

     2 December 2003, 21:57 GMT

Re: Re: Re: Program of the Year Voting Opens
jordan krage  Account Info

third sounds pretty crappy to me...
out of how many

-jordan

ps-u missed school fer it?!?!?!
i would have entered (and got last) just to miss school

     2 December 2003, 22:23 GMT


Re: Re: Re: Re: Program of the Year Voting Opens
angelboy Account Info
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The judge screwed us over because it was supposed to be written and about AP classes, but it was really on the computer, nothing about the AP classes, most of us had never used a .NET compilier before. Mine kept mislocating files so I had to start a new project and copy/paste before every compile. I'm still going to state, however.

     3 December 2003, 02:05 GMT


Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Program of the Year Voting Opens
shkaboinka  Account Info
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Have fun; I won 1st place in the VICA SkillsUSA C++ competition for 2003. There was no compiler though, they made us type in a text file and turn it in.

I was dissapointed though because it was only a bunch of problems you have to solve; I thought we were going to have to make something...but it's still good; I got a nice scholarship to DeVRY! I was only upset that they don't have nationals for C++ (I would have gone to nationals). It's funny though, because I typed "Null" wrong through the whole thing (I found out later).

Good luck to you though;

ps, if you think of going into CIS, know that it is a major for programmers who won't know diddly about computers; its a business major. I'm switching to Computer engineering because it has everything, and there is not much for me to learn in CIS that I don't already know.

     5 December 2003, 14:40 GMT


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shkaboinka  Account Info
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I did not mention that it was the IL state competition; I didn't have to go to any previous competitions though.

By the way, I looked in the catalog, and it says that CIS will set you up as the programmer for the XZY corporation; they make widgets. You just get to make programs for their database and do stuff with their network. Computer Engineering Technology actually has "software Engineering" as one of the career choices after it; it will set you up to be the programmer for sun, microsoft, nintendo...you program for a company who makes software/programs, and NOT widgets! on top of that you'll know computers and electronics on every level, and Operating systems architecture and all levels of software down to the internal system workings and everything. CIS will teach you how to program, go a little further (you will learn a little about OS architecture and stuff), but you will take LOTS of business courses and stuff; it's business oriented!

I have to stay in CIS to keep my scholarship though; I am actually taking all Computer Engineering courses, and the common general ed classes are keeping me technically in CIS for a while until I have to switch to go any further :)

     5 December 2003, 14:56 GMT


Re: Re: Re: Program of the Year Voting Opens
no_one_2000_  Account Info
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Cool, what's the VICA C++ programming competition?

     3 December 2003, 21:02 GMT

Re: Program of the Year Voting Opens
Barrett Anderson  Account Info
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shouldn't you wait till january to do this?

oh well... i'd probably be too lazy to update my programs anyway (and they definitely wouldn't have a chance to win...)

     3 December 2003, 01:50 GMT

Re: Program of the Year Voting Opens
Memwaster  Account Info

What a pity, my OS won't be out by then. Maybe ill try for 2004

     3 December 2003, 06:02 GMT


Re: Re: Program of the Year Voting Opens
KermMartian Account Info
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What OS might that be?

     3 December 2003, 13:34 GMT

Re: Re: Re: Program of the Year Voting Opens
Michael McElroy Account Info
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Doors QZ.

     4 December 2003, 22:42 GMT


Re: Re: Re: Program of the Year Voting Opens
Memwaster  Account Info

Just a new one for the TI-83+. It's supposed to be abit like CP/M. Unfortunately, all the existing programs will have to be reassembled to run on it. However, I think it will be good for the serious programmer as it will have a built-in assembler a bit like ZDS. A later release will have multi-tasking capabilities.

The main differences are elimination of the FPS, better GetCSC codes (each letter key has its ASCII code attached to it), an "allocate temp RAM" routine that creates the "SafeRAM" that u need. I'm hoping for a release date near the start of 2005.

     7 December 2003, 06:59 GMT


Re: Re: Re: Re: Program of the Year Voting Opens
benryves  Account Info
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Sounds pretty cool... but what's FPS? Frames per Second? First person shooter?

     10 December 2003, 12:16 GMT

Re: Program of the Year Voting Opens
W Hibdon  Account Info

Ah, to be the winner....

Of course, you cannot win, lest you have a program uploaded. I really need to start programming again. I have found how my mom deletes my stuff, and can hide better. I think I will start this week, and maybe I can have a program if the year next year....

-W-

     3 December 2003, 18:00 GMT

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burntfuse  Account Info

Hmmm...you could bury your files in a subfolder of C:/Windows/System/ named something like drivers32. She would never find them! :-)

BTW, thanks for defending me recently on the message boards.

     3 December 2003, 20:43 GMT


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no_one_2000_  Account Info
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Huh? Did I miss something?

What is your mom's method of deleting files? I would be so ticked if my parents did stuff like that. I can't even imagine...

     3 December 2003, 21:06 GMT


Re: §
W Hibdon  Account Info

My main deal is a registry hack that does not allow the uninstall to show uo in the uninstall box. I could go into detali, but I have no reason to. If iam asked, I will.

-W-

     3 December 2003, 21:16 GMT

Re: Re: §
no_one_2000_  Account Info
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Interesting... I'm normally too afraid to play around with the registry.

     4 December 2003, 20:53 GMT


Re: Re: Re: §
W Hibdon  Account Info

As you should be. I am as well. However, I am not too worried. Minly becaues, I am only deleting string values that have nothing to do with program operation (unless you count the uninstaller, in which case, it does not hurt it).

-So I will continue to continue to pretend that I, W, have skills

     4 December 2003, 21:56 GMT


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no_one_2000_  Account Info
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Have you heard that one about going into MS-DOS and renaming the file with a CHR$(255) at the end? Apparently, that write protects it, in some way. It's weird, I tried it once.

     5 December 2003, 13:25 GMT


Re: ®ég®¥ hå×ø® §kíl|Š
benryves  Account Info
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Have you heard the one about the lift?
I doub't you'd get it, it works on multiple levels ;)

     10 December 2003, 12:17 GMT


Re: Re: §
Travis Evans Account Info

I do that on the computer I'm sharing with my parents at the moment, not to hide my stuff, but just to keep it out of their way so they don't have to worry about it. I keep everything (including software) self-contained in my personal folder.

     5 December 2003, 02:59 GMT


Re: Re: Re: §
Brian Gordon Account Info
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hehehe, my "personal folder" named Brian with that yellow XP star icon, is well over 2GB. And it just has personal files (old downloads or scripts that i still use), documents, programming stuff, flash downloads, etc. 4000+ files. If I were to move (reinstall) a whole bunch of junk into my folder, like activeperl, djgpp, cataclysm, Ground Control, codemagic, my four java installations (3 unsucessful :), Lotus Notes and Smartsuite, AOK and AOK:TC (each 719MB), Office XP, Rise of Nations, Empire Earth and Conquest, and World Book 2000, I would have a ~12 GB folder. On a 19GB hard drive :)

     5 December 2003, 14:32 GMT

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Travis Evans Account Info

Mine (including software) is only about 600MB right now. But I usually clean my stuff out a lot and archive things onto CD-Rs that I'm not using at the moment. And this computer only has a 7GB HD. :)

     6 December 2003, 18:11 GMT


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Memwaster  Account Info

My "My Music" directory is over 20GB. Mainly CD images, personal programs, etc. It also has about 20mb of music :)

     7 December 2003, 07:03 GMT

Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: §
Travis Evans Account Info

Wow, and I have been quite satisfied with just a few GB for my data. :-) But I keep all my music on CD-Rs rather than the HD since I like to listen to them in my MP3 disc player too.

     9 December 2003, 15:54 GMT


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burntfuse  Account Info

20 MB of music? :-) I have >300 MB - Bon Jovi, Matchbox 20, 3 Doors Down, Def Leppard, Boston, etc. -I once calculated that I have about 8 straight hours of hard rock on my hard drive.

     10 December 2003, 00:12 GMT

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benryves  Account Info
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Peh, a mere 3GB for me :)
About 99% of which I own the CDs for, I hasten to add... the rest is stuff like game remixes and music ripped off DVD soundtracks.

     10 December 2003, 12:19 GMT


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Joe Pemberton  Account Info
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I have over 12 GB of music on my computer.

     10 December 2003, 19:08 GMT


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burntfuse  Account Info

12 GB!!!!!! :-O What do you listen to?

     14 December 2003, 02:22 GMT


Re: Re: Program of the Year Voting Opens
Michael McElroy Account Info
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"Lest you" does not mean "unless you". It means "so that you don't". As in, "You should go to class and study, lest you fail the final exam."

     4 December 2003, 22:43 GMT

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