DEADLINE: July 16, 2015
The Challenge
Use the APL
programming language and your problem solving skills to compete for cash prizes
and a paid trip to the annual Dyalog user meeting in Sicily, Italy.
Don't know
APL? Don't worry! Most of the winners of previous competitions were new to APL
yet quickly learned enough to submit excellent entries.
Prizes
- Grand prize: $2,500 cash prize and an invitation to attend the 2015 Dyalog user meeting (to be held in Sicily, Italy from September 6-10, 2015). At the user meeting the winner will receive their prize and have the opportunity to present their winning work. Travel costs up to $3,500 plus $500 for incidental expenses and all user meeting fees will be provided by Dyalog.
- Second prize: $1,250 cash prize
- Third prize: $750 cash prize
- Phase I prizes: The top 20 Phase I participants will each receive a $100 cash prize.
- Phase II participation prizes: 20 participants who submit entries for Phase II of the competition will be selected to receive a $100 cash prize.
- Non-student prize: One non-student participant will win a complimentary registration to Dyalog'15.
Judging and Eligibility
While anyone
is welcome to participate in the competition, only verified full-time students
are eligible to win any of the 43 cash prizes and trip to the Dyalog user
conference.
Phase I and
Phase II count for 1/3 and 2/3 respectively of the judging for the Grand,
Second and Third place prizes. The competition judging committee will determine
the finalists, provided that they are eligible to win and have adhered to the
competition rules.
Important Dates
- July 16 – Competition closes. All submissions must be complete by this date.
- Week of August 3 – The 43 winners of the competition contacted
- September 6-10 – Dyalog user meeting in Sicily, Italy
Joining the
competition is as easy as...
Step 1: Sign
up
Step 2:
Download the APL software
Dyalog
provides an educational licence, free of charge, to all those in full time education.
Apply for an educational licence here.
When applying
for a licence, you need to specify the operating system that you’ll be using;
the options are Microsoft Windows or Linux. However, for the first time this
year Dyalog can also be run on a Mac. If you want to use Dyalog on a Mac, then
please state in the “Other Comments” section of the application that you need
the Mac version.
Note: You need
OS X Yosemite operating system on the Mac for Dyalog to run (it won’t run on an
iPad or older OS X).
This is the
first release of the Mac version of Dyalog and it’s still in Beta testing.
There’s currently no documentation. In addition, Dyalog on the Mac is Dyalog
version 14.1 – this is also still in Beta testing and documentation for the
functionality introduced at 14.1 is incomplete.
Step 3:
Complete Phase I
In Phase I of
the competition you will be introduced to APL as you tackle 10 small problems
that can each be solved using a single line of APL code. Sound easy? Start the
challenge to find out! You can download a copy of the Phase I problem
descriptions here.
After you
submit your Phase I solutions, Dyalog will provide you with feedback and advice
about continuing on to Phase II.
Step 4: APL
Phase II
Things start
to heat up in Phase II. Here you will be challenged with a set of problems of
varying complexity. You'll code your solutions and upload a file containing the
code. You can download the Phase II questions here before you get started.
You will need
the following files in order to solve the Phase II problems and submit your
solution:
Contest2015.dws
– the Phase II workspace
Contest2015.dyalog
– the Phase II UTF-8 template file
Step 5: Wait
for your results!
On August 10th
the winners of the competition will be announced on the competition website.
Source: DYALOG
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