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In a bid to encourage lads who are budding programmers, I am thinking of a sort of mini code contest - depending on the level of interest indicated and the standard of the competition, I am ready to contribute my Toshiba Satellite laptop (fairly nice specs, barely scratched, ~ 14months old, loaded with a full range of software development tools worth more than £15000GBP !) as first prize.

If you are up for this, post here and say so. If you know folks who might be interested, refer them here too. Pls no one should contact me via email, just signify interest on here, if i think we have sufficent numbers, we are game.

(note, I will not be a contestant so dont be afraid)

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More twisted than dreadlocks

Fantastic!

I would support this challenge by contributing Money or Electronic device for 2nd & 3rd price...
I further use this opportunity to encourage every working class member of this website to contribute financially towards this...i think you guys can afford to contribute between #500 and #10,000 (depending on you) no amount is too small...it would be nice to encourage some young Nigerians out there...who really want to develop themselves ...and at least did not go for the popular Yahoo Yahoo option
...if we dont start doing stuffs like this when would it be done!
...u know nowww....dat if we keep waiting for government on stuffs like this...we are only waiting forever!

Lets do it!

Regards to all

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Fowe.
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Sounds pretty good. I'm game! I just started programming in java a few months ago. This might be real fun!

I am interesting

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Pls am interested in the contest. It will help some us newbie in programming to grow.

Good to see some of you guys indicating interest...
Just like beholdtocyn, can you talk a little about your programming language preferences
lets know the programming language(s) you are learning and the ones you like to have a contest with.

where are my Perl codersss....i hope one of you isssss

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Fowe.
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INTERESTED TOO!

@Ogunyale
Whats your programming language preference

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Fowe.
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Quite interesting
so which programming language(s) will be considered for the competition ?

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More twisted than dreadlocks

X-2-X,
Thanks for the opportunity you guys are providing. I'm quite interested in the code challenge. I program with Java (Java SE to be precise) and VB.NET. Hope to get a feedback from you whenever the competition is set to kick off. You can contact me via .........removed by Admin.

Thanks.

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Regards to all.

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Keep Developing...

well java n c++ b4 me... ready to role.....

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So far we've got:

1. beholdtocyn - Java
2.owosconet - PHP/HTML
3. Amyken - ?
4. Ogunyale - ?
5. ufonduo - Java
6. ndy40 - Java

This makes 3 Java guys and 1 scripter.

Can we have some more show of interest?

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More twisted than dreadlocks

Actually i dont know why you call it a challenge. I was looking forward to something that has to do with group development. Something like group development of an application or Operating system development. Instead of challenging knowledge. If it has to do with application development using java, ajax, javascript..., i'm in.

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Odeyemi 'Kayode O.

Application Developer & Systems Engineer (Sun Certified Professional)
P.O.Box 682, Ita-elewa, Ikorodu,
Lagos, Nigeria, West-Africa.

@Dre

As Fowe said on another thread, this is a public forum, so you could launch your own group development plot. Goodluck on that one.

For me, It is not just a charity event, it is a means of sieving out folks who actually have some programming skills, guaging their skill level, skill gaps and seeing if it is worth the while for me to invest resources in grooming them to the extent that they can undertake freelance programming jobs on my behalf.

Unfortunately, it doesnt look like there are sufficient numbers in here.

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More twisted than dreadlocks

never knew it was ur idea. u guys can be creative enough to bring up something that will unite programmers. Not a "can u do this thing".

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Odeyemi 'Kayode O.

Application Developer & Systems Engineer (Sun Certified Professional)
P.O.Box 682, Ita-elewa, Ikorodu,
Lagos, Nigeria, West-Africa.

Na wa oh.

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More twisted than dreadlocks

interesting stunts going on here...it seams Nigerians for now prefers CCNA and ORACLE compared to programming....not surprised this thread is not bubbling...as we xpected.
But we dont have a choice we have to brew new programmers up in this country.
We might just have to go back and look for the teens!

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Fowe.
Choices make or mar Chances ... add extra care to your choices today.

how can u xpect to see more programmers when everyone is looking for money. I told someone of recent that let's do a design library for java. He replied by saying "am I the one who will feed him throughout the period of the project?".

Apart from that there are little opportunities for programmers in Nigeria. Our IT is still at an infant stage. I'm still looking forward to that day when people will take programming as an hobby.

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Odeyemi 'Kayode O.

Application Developer & Systems Engineer (Sun Certified Professional)
P.O.Box 682, Ita-elewa, Ikorodu,
Lagos, Nigeria, West-Africa.

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Fowe.
Choices make or mar Chances ... add extra care to your choices today.

if u look at it. How many students in Nigeria actually study what they really want to. Our school system is just nonsense to me. There's no adequate room for them to learn. Immediately they graduate they want to move to the booming sector in the economy.

programmers need to work together in this country to achieve a common goal.

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Odeyemi 'Kayode O.

Application Developer & Systems Engineer (Sun Certified Professional)
P.O.Box 682, Ita-elewa, Ikorodu,
Lagos, Nigeria, West-Africa.

So there is no project objective or questions of any sort. Just freestyle right?

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Fowe.
Choices make or mar Chances ... add extra care to your choices today.