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tehsage on 30 March 2009

My friends and I recently participated in the University of Maryland High School Programming Contest. Every year there is a new theme and, well, this year's theme was Super Mario. XD

I never want to have to create a program that compares an army of three Spineys to an army of four Koopa's. T_T;



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adajio on 30 March 2009

Aww, all the programming contests I've ever gone to have involved widgets or rabbits (man that was a strange set of questions...). I would have enjoyed Mario a whole lot more



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nordlead on 30 March 2009

eww. They made you use java and eclipse...




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tehsage on 30 March 2009
nordlead said:
eww. They made you use java and eclipse...

 

I'll agree "eww" with the latter. 



warioswoods on 30 March 2009

Disagree!

!(Mario + Programming != Fun)

Reading through the tasks you had to complete, I can only dream of a future Mario game that would unite the Mushroom Kingdom with a more mathematical (and astral) twist on Professor Layton. These quotes are wonderful:

 

 

Super Mario is studying how to use a mysterious Power Square. The Power Square is n x n with integer values between 0 and n2 − 1. 

Rosalina finds Super Mario puzzling over the Power Square and gives him another hint on how to unlock its power. ”Keep swapping 0 with one of its neighbors! I’ll tell you which neighbor,” Rosalina says to Mario. Rosalina then gives Mario a sequence of directions on which neighbor to swap with 0. 

 

Super Mario takes a break from exploring the Power Square to do some exploring. He finds himself in a galaxy where, in order to earn power stars, he needs to find consecutive composite numbers.


 

Who wouldn't want to play that??

 

 



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tehsage on 30 March 2009
warioswoods said:

Disagree!

!(Mario + Programming != Fun)

Reading through the tasks you had to complete, I can only dream of a future Mario game that would unite the Mushroom Kingdom with a more mathematical (and astral) twist on Professor Layton. These quotes are wonderful:

 

 

Super Mario is studying how to use a mysterious Power Square. The Power Square is n x n with integer values between 0 and n2 − 1. 

 

Rosalina finds Super Mario puzzling over the Power Square and gives him another hint on how to unlock its power. ”Keep swapping 0 with one of its neighbors! I’ll tell you which neighbor,” Rosalina says to Mario. Rosalina then gives Mario a sequence of directions on which neighbor to swap with 0. 

 

Super Mario takes a break from exploring the Power Square to do some exploring. He finds himself in a galaxy where, in order to earn power stars, he needs to find consecutive composite numbers.


 

Who wouldn't want to play that??

 

 

T_T; Maybe you're a better programmer than me. I had trouble with problems 5-8.

 

We did almost get 6, though.

 

Btw we came in 7th out of 45.