[GAP] The Ada Way student programming contest

[Jamie Ayre]

Dear GAP members,

Ada-Europe (www.ada-europe.org) has launched "The Ada Way", an annual student programming contest aimed at attracting students and educators to Ada in a form that is both fun and instructive. Entries are now open for the 2010-11 competition and judging takes place in May next year.

In line with the start of the football (soccer) season, this year's challenge is to build a software simulator of a football match.  The software system, programmed in Ada, will need to support a number of gaming and football features including speed, tactical skills and player fatigue. The submitted code will include a software core, implementing the logic of the simulation, as well as read-write graphical panels for participating football team managers.

Candidate submissions will be judged on a number of evaluation criteria including:
- Coverage of requirements.
- Syntactic, semantic, programmatic and design correctness.
- Clarity and readability of the code.
- Quality of design.
- Ingenuity and cuteness of the solution.
- Time and space efficiency of the solution. 

The winning submission will win a framed award, one free registration and up to 3 reduced student fees for representatives of the winning team to attend to the Ada-Europe 2011 Conference, accommodation and airfare for the team representatives, an exhibition slot in the conference program, and visibility in electronic and printed media.

To enter, and for the full specification and details of software requirements, please go to the official web site of "The Ada Way", www.ada-europe.org/AdaWay.

We look forward to seeing teams from your universities competing!