Ada-Europe Kicks Off its First Annual Student Programming Contest “The Ada Way”

In line with the start of the football 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

• Syntatic, 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 three 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.