I noticed this from the ACM newswire and thought I'd post in reference to our summer contest ...  Who's Got the Time? Government Computer News (06/23/08) Vol. 27, No. 15, Jackson, Joab The discontinuity between computerized and human timekeeping complicates the continued operation of the Internet and computer networks, which ...

The theme of our summer '08 programming contest recognizes that a new season is upon us, and because it is summer, it is warmly welcomed by those of us in the northern hemisphere - and certainly offers things to appreciate for those in the southern hemisphere as well! This contest, ending Sunday, August 31, is for the best program that uses ...

We had seven entries in our Winter/Spring contest (or just our "latest contest", announced in January, for our southern hemisphere entrants), for best use of math in a program. Thanks to everyone who entered! It was great to see what you came up with, and there was a lot of diversity in how you each pursued this challenge! In ...

This is a cool program designed by Melanie Rust, a second grader and 8 years old (helped a little by her dad). Although very simple, it demonstrates a lot of the programming principles, including math, useful in Phrogram. The goal of the game is to catch the butterflies with a net. Each butterfly has an equation on it. A matching value is on the ...

This contest, ending Sunday, April 6, is for the best use of math in a program!Your program must be no more than 1000 lines of code, not counting white spaceYour program should put math in a game (like LFS’s Mazzle puzzle), or in digital art (like MichaelH’s MandelbrotTria fractal), or in a demonstration of how something works in the ...

We had six entries in our fall contest, for best use of sound in a program. Thanks to everyone who entered!  It was a lot of fun to give each entry a whirl, and deciding which three should win a prize wasn’t easy! And, if you read on, you’ll learn that we added a fourth! First, let me summarize each entry, and let you know ...

Attached is our entry for the Fall programming contest. I hope it will be valuable to someone! Our entry was put together as a group, myself and my son and daughter. This is a spelling bee program that allows up to four people to compete in a spelling bee. The sound elements include the pronunciation of the words and sounds for correct ...

Our Fall programming contest, ending December 9, is for the best use of sound in a program!   Guidelines: Your program must be no more than 1000 lines of code, not counting white spaceYour program may use any sound in the media files that come with Phrogram or any sound that you create and include with your program (sounds must be ...

I am pleased to announce the results of the February Digital Art contest. But before I do, let me note a few things: 1st, this contest got more entries than all our prior contests, so the increasing level of participation is really cool ... thanks to everyone who took part! 2nd, we are going to announce the subject of our next contest soon ...

Beginning with our April contest (the February contest was extended to March 15 so we probably won't have another contest until next month), this forum will be the place to post your entries or to find information or tips about our monthly contests. It should make things easier to find, for both contestants and judges! We are also ...