08-16-2012 09:54 AM
Does anybody know how the LabVIEW Code Challenge turned out this year? I kept hearing that people inside of NI were aiming to have Darren go down. But I never heard any results.
08-16-2012 10:15 AM
@crossrulz wrote:
Does anybody know how the LabVIEW Code Challenge turned out this year? I kept hearing that people inside of NI were aiming to have Darren go down. But I never heard any results.
Here's a video that Grant made of the event. You could skip to the end to find out, or...
08-16-2012 10:18 AM
Next year you have to use the laptop nub instead of a mouse.
08-16-2012 10:20 AM
@taper wrote:
Next year you have to use the laptop nub instead of a mouse.
Ugh! I'd lose for sure. 😛 Trackball, trackpad, nub...any of those would slow me down terribly.
08-16-2012 10:39 AM
@taper wrote:
Next year you have to use the laptop nub instead of a mouse.
Or tell him no QD allowed...but if it's 5 years in a row, that means he won before quickdrop was available...
08-16-2012 10:44 AM
@for(imstuck) wrote:Or tell him no QD allowed...but if it's 5 years in a row, that means he won before quickdrop was available...
The whole point of the thing is to demonstrate the power of Quick Drop! 😛 And my first competition was in 2008, which was when LabVIEW 8.6 released. I introduced Quick Drop with LabVIEW 8.6 in the keynote demo that year.
08-16-2012 10:45 AM
I will say, the first question could have been interpreted differently: "Create a subVI that either adds subtracts multiplies or divides." This implies it only needs one of these functions. I would have beaten you.
08-16-2012 10:49 AM
@for(imstuck) wrote:
I would have beaten you.
No promises, but we're planning on opening up the challenge to everybody (like we have in past years) at NI Week 2013. You'll have a chance to lose to me then. 😉
08-16-2012 10:52 AM
Darren wrote:You'll have a chance to lose to me then. 😉
I'd consider it an honor.
08-17-2012 03:13 AM
@for(imstuck) wrote:
I will say, the first question could have been interpreted differently: "Create a subVI that either adds subtracts multiplies or divides." This implies it only needs one of these functions. I would have beaten you.
Likewise, when I heard the second question, I immediately thought "for loop with a random number and auto-indexing" - the numbers would all satisfy the conditions and it would be over in about 10 seconds.
That said, you can never tell how you would react on the stage in real time. If I'm ever at NIWeek again I can give it a shot (I still own Darren that from a couple of years ago). I'm not usually a fast programmer like Darren, but I have my ways.