Programming Contest

I know this isn't exactly video game related, but I just have to brag a bit about it. Yesterday night, a friend of mine and I won our division in a programming contest put on by our college's computer science club.

The contest was a series of 5 problems composed by one of the proffessors, and each team of two people was supposed to write a program for as many as possible. The winners were whoever got the most working programs in, with how long it took them being used as a tiebreaker.

There were 2 divisions - one for people who were in or had taken programming I and those in programming II (me!), and the other division was for people who were in programming III or above. Both divisions got the same 5 problems.

There were 3 teams there in my division, and of the three I believe we were the only one to turn in any working programs. Not only that, though, but we also turned in a second ... and we were going to turn in a third but the formatting wasn't working (we looked it up later and it was the first thing we tried). So, officially we got 2 programs in and by my count we got in 2.5, compared to the 0 or possibly 1 of each of the other teams in out division.

Furthermore (and this is the part I wanted to brag about), not only did we beat some of the teams from the higher division, but also if we got that third program in then (not counting time) we would have been tied with the best people there, since nobody got in more than 3 working programs.

So my friend and I got 2 GB flash drives as prizes (as did the winners from the other division, and one guy who was paired with an alumni because there was an od number of people). Far more valuable to me, however, is the right to brag about it ... now I just have to think of who to tell next...