Gold Sponsor: Web Apps UK
Web Applications UK is a successful I.T. company based in Manchester, specialising in software for the travel industry. As a Microsoft Gold Partner they provide reservation systems for leading travel companies and are well equipped to handle a full range of I.T. requirements.
Their main focus is providing a great place to work. Presenting their I.T. professionals with continuous development and a generous training budget means developers are constantly improving towards their full potential. They’re always on the lookout for talented Software Engineers to join their expanding team, so apply now at [email protected]
Please visit www.webapplicationsuk.com to learn more!
Challenge
The Rube Goldberg Chinese Whispers Programming Challenge
The brief is to take a string input from the user and pass it though as many different programs, in as many different programming languages, using as many different communications protocols and encodings as possible! Before finally outputting the resulting message back to the user. Each step should add the name of the program/language, the name of the protocol and the name of the encoding on to the message.
Scoring will be based on a number of factors including: The number of different languages, encoding and protocols used, accuracy of output message, speed of throughput, ingenuity of the sequence, quality of the code.