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lordweezy:
i will sponsor the competition. message me on whatsapp +855962641465.

my terms are I want developers to target building a data recording and mining app for Nigerian government. Am tired of a country where the pvc, national id card and bvn is not merged. I want developers to merge these and let's give it to the Nigerian government free or for a royalty.

the benefits are: if these are merged, we know who is citizen, banks know when you have loan from anyone. government knows when you working or not,citizens can access loans easily, we can lobby for national health insurance for all citizens, we can also lobby for educational loan from government or banks,if more development like government transport systems comes e.g government owns the entire means of transport. simple you buy state monthly subscription and go to work daily with or without cash using this new id card.

my desire is to see a better Nigeria and technology can take us further than we can imagine.

I only sponsor good projects.

I have been looking at this stuff, it is too big to put into a simple competition like this. But let us see how the competition goes, based on the performance, we can see if we can set this one up as another competition too ----> though for intermediates (not beginners)

Good morning people, I was feeling sleepy at the time. This is a very important question that we need an answer to before we proceed.

If I can get like 5 votes to support this motion, we go for dhtml's option, otherwise we will have to look for another option.

You guys can chose to go with dhtml's offer, here is how that can work.


I am going to award overall 1st with 30k, overall second with 20k, overall 3rd with 10k.

And DHTML is ready to award the best in each of the categories with 50k each.

Are you guys for this? or should be look for another option?

@Chatflick you are welcome, since the competition has not yet been determined, you can still troll in. Are you competiting or acting as a judge?

@silver, adonbiliv you are competing, na judge you suppose be o. What kind of troll are you sef?

^^^data collection something keh? where was that one stated o?

By the way, registration is now closed o (we don allow one late comer already)

I am thinking of something here that will be more beneficial to the programming community.

How about we do it like this:

We split the competition into three categories:

Cat A - Desktop application ----> here the C++, node webkit, java people can do their thing
Cat B - Mobile application -----> here the flutter, java/android/ios people can do their stuffs
Cat C - Web application ------> area for the gods of web development to show themselves

Anyone of the above contestants can pick ONE category ONLY where they want to show themself.


And the price will now be reviewed to
1ST 30k
2ND 20k
3RD 10k

At least that will spread the chances of people a bit. Now as to the content of the quiz, I will come up with something in my next post.

Very good, how did you do it? So that others can learn.

hmn

I have built frameworks before, and I know this is the technique used by most frameworks to load stuffs so that you dont enter wahala with require/include things.

anyone can suggest, it will help me think. i will decide on what to go with.

So so, what do you suggest? I have been thinking about it too, and cant seem to reach a conclusion.

Let me explain something:

+ resources
++ views
+++ header.php
+++ footer.php
+ app
++ template.php
+ index.php

Let us assume you load the index folder, and want to include the app/template.php, here is what most people will do
include "app/template.php"; //relative addressing

Here is what i will do
include __DIR__."/app/template.php"; //absolute addressing

So let us now assume that inside the template.php you wish to include header.php, you best best is this

include __DIR__."/../resources/views/header.php"; //this is absolute addressing still


If you want to include footer.php inside header.php, then is best to do
include __DIR__."/footer.php";

If you follow this guideline, you will get it better.

I have been thinking about it, I think I will go with this dude's advice. What I am thinking about earlier will not work because we have mixed developers, we need something basic that can be done with desktop programming like C++, and also with web and mobile techs.

Let me go with zerozz suggestion, anyone with a good idea we might explore (for beginners mind you).

zerozz:
I think Contestants should decide what to build, that will encourage creativity. if the sponsors are to decide what to build, it simply means they are the ones building the app because they have the original Idea, the programmers are Just craft men. you get it?

Interesting, I just trolled there now make i go see wetin dey sele. Seems interesting sha.

Omo boys don dey para o. I am battling with some serious bugs here ni o. Let me kill the bug finish so that I can come back here and state the quiz. At least you can see from my posts that I am monitoring the threads closely.

@Silver, another person blood don dey hot. I am working on it, I will publish it later today. Still trying to clear my office desk first.

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It is not compulsory to state your full-names here.

REVEREND101:
Ekene Obi
Desktop App (C Programming Language)
Male

I have been wondering if we have a C programmer on board since.

I have never heard of a situation where contestants decide on what to build before o. Note that whatever is built, the scoring system remains the same.
We are not truly interested in the final product as such, it is the techniques that matter, so at the end of the day we pick something simple that everyone should be able to build.

As for this competition, what will be built will soon get announced, no need prowling around the thread like this now.

tsk...tsk...tsk...let us see what the contestants have to say to this first.

SilverG33k:
I am so prepared for this competition, bring it on... ��

Your blood too dey hot o.

great - meanwhile, we still dey find sponsors. Odi egwu for this site o, someone should go and call @Seun now?

e be like say developers plenty gan o

e be like say we go shortlist the competitors o.

I dont really know the developers here like that, so it is hard for me to know pro developers from beginners. Maybe the moderator can help, who is the moderator sef?

excellent responses, this is going to be quite interesting

Exactly what to build will be stated around 20th of this month. But it will be something basic that deals with users in different location communicating with text and pictures, it can be a simple newsfeed or a chat - it will be properly described, and it will be basic in nature.

No one is asking for a fully featured app mind you, just something basic, well-coded following good coding standards, code neatness. No copy-and-pasting will be allowed, the codes will be well-scrutinized too - there are ways of knowing if a work is copied from the WWW.

bolkay47:
Kayode
C#/Java -> Android App (or Desktop Software if applicable). I actually prefer desktop software development. However, that depends on the type of application to be developed.

Yes, you can use desktop software in the competition.

It does not come with php and has to be installed separately. If you are running php in some cpanel hosting, you need to enable mcrypt from the settings.
If it is not present at all, it will need to be installed and included into the php config.

hubcap:
which app are we building, and how do you know if one is a pro developer

Pro-developers will want to do something for a bigger reward like 500k and will pass over stuffs like this. So that is why I said pro-developer make anyone no complain say the money small?

Who are the contestants? Nobody is indicating interest to contest? You cannot lose anything for trying mind you.