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Surprise Language Contest: An invitation
By chaitan94, 10 years ago, In English

"Surprise is the greatest gift which life can grant us." — Boris Pasternak

Hey coders!

Are you ready for something challenging? Something adventurous? This year, FLUXUS — IIT Indore & Programming Club, IIT Indore are introducing a new type of contest: the Surprise Language Programming Contest. Here, unlike a regular programming contest, you will only be able to use one language, which will be announced 15 mins before the contest. So be ready to compete, you might even learn a whole new language along the way!

Contest link: https://www.hackerrank.com/surprise-language

Do share it with your friends who are interested :D

Further, we'll be announcing a list of 10 languages three days before the contest on our Facebook event page, out of which one will be the language in the contest.

I Prize: Rs. 1,000 in Cash + T Shirt + Goodies

Next four prizes (2-5): T-Shirt + Goodies

Next five prizes (6-10): T-Shirt

Prizes are only for Indians. But, I hope others will still participate as this contest is more of a fun event than for prizes :)

Finally, don't forget to register at http://fluxus.in/register.php as Prizes are only applicable to users with a Fluxus-ID

For more details / contact details, visit: http://fluxus.in/event.php/SurpriseLanguage

Note: Though our aim was to create a contest like SLR's of codeforces, but since it is the first time we are conducting such a contest, it will be a bit different than those contests. Here we will be using fairly common language, and will be more beginner friendly.

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Your college selecting scroll bar doesn't work properly . tho interested I was unable to register

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New SLR... and not from Nickolas? Wow. Sounds interesting.

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    Glad you found it interesting!

    But just to be clear, this will be slightly different from the rounds conducted by Nickolas so far. Though we wanted to keep it like that using uncommon languages, but since this is our first time conducting such a contest, we'll be using a fairly common language.

    And by the way, though we haven't planned for a future event yet, but if it really gets popular, we will think of conducting a more unknown language type of a round, maybe on codeforces itself! :D

    If possible I'd even like to work with Nickolas. I really liked the SLR's so far on codeforces. :)

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SLR not by me? I'm positively intrigued and certainly will try that out :-)

For Facebook event page, you probably meant https://www.facebook.com/events/1410390572601671/ (at least that's what Hackerrank page points to). And, seeing that it's already less than 3 days to the contest, it already has a list of languages:

  • Clojure
  • Erlang
  • LOLCODE
  • Smalltalk
  • Scala
  • Common Lisp (SBCL)
  • Rust
  • Racket
  • Tcl
  • Whitespace

Tcl was featured in the first Codeforces ULR, so I hope it's not it again :-) Whitespace and LOLCODE are both cool languages but neither fits "a fairly common language" constraint :-)

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    I guess "fairly common language" is a bit subjective.

    We don't want anyone to rule out any languages, as doing so may make it even less (or more?) surprising ;)

    I'll really be honored if you participated :D

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