[Coco] A Newbie’s Thoughts on the 24th Annual “Last” Chicago CocoFest 2015

[Salvador Garcia]

Great article Brian!


I can help you fill in the blanks regarding the programming contest.


In fact, there were two contests:


1. Creating a BASIC program that would run in the DTSS BASIC emulator
2. Creating a program that would run in the CoCo I with 4K


I do not know what happened to the CoCo 4K programming challenge, but i can shed some light on the DTSS BASIC programming contest...


There were three entries by John Mark Mobley, Kip Koon and myself, Salvador Garcia


John Mark's program solved a puzzle which consisted of calculating the child's and father's ages given that the grandfather's ages was 
evenly divisible by the child's age for 5 )or was it 6) consecutive years.


Kip Koon's program graphically presented a sine wave onscreen (quite impressive)


My program implemented a simple text adventure game called maze which basically consisted of finding your way out of a maze.


My program won and I was awarded .. uh... wait... now that I think of it there were no prizes! I guess just the glory of programming like it was 1964 :-)


Salvador




-----Original Message-----
From: Brian Holman <me at brianholman.com>
To: coco <coco at maltedmedia.com>
Sent: Tue, May 5, 2015 9:33 pm
Subject: [Coco] A Newbie’s Thoughts on the 24th Annual “Last” Chicago CocoFest 2015


I wrote an article on my website called a Newbie’s Thoughts on the 24th Annual
“Last” Chicago CocoFest 2015. I had a great time at the event. For those of you
who weren't able to attend it might give you some idea of what it was
like.
http://www.brianholman.com/retrocompute/

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