From: "Michael J. I. Jackson" <mjijackson@...>
Date: 2010-04-10T05:36:36+09:00
Subject: Re: Need a short nontrivial example program

No! Not Dwemthy's Array! You will most assuredly look like a fool when
your Rabbit gets trashed by the Industrial Raver Monkey as he's
desperately trying to choke down leafy heads of lettuce!

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Michael Jackson
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@mjijackson



On Fri, Apr 9, 2010 at 1:44 PM, Aldric Giacomoni <aldric@trevoke.net> wrote:
> Josh Cheek wrote:
>> I'm a member of the ACM at my university (Wichita State), and we are
>> allowed
>> to participate in the College of Engineering's open house.
>
> [...]
>
>> So I am looking for ideas about what this program should be. I want it
>> to be
>> nontrivial, because I want them to walk away thinking "holy crap, I just
>> did
>> something cool that I could see myself using at some point in the
>> future".
>> And I want it to be short so that a number of people can give it a try.
>
> So the ruby-warrior thing doesn't excite you? ;-)
>
> It can be tough; what is really exciting for an engineer? They have a
> very meticulous personality, point-by-point, attention to detail.
>
> Maybe recreating Dwemthy's array in front of their eyes?
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>
>