Design and Evolution of cyber-dojo

This is a fun session based loosely on the popular UK TV game show Countdown [1].

In the TV version, in each round, contestants have 30 seconds to find the longest word using only a small set of letters.

In this version, in each round, teams have ~7 minutes to write the smallest C++ program which includes a given set of tokens.

For example, the tokens in one round might be:

const std::vector<std::string>> tokens =
{
    "catch",
    "->",
    "[",
    ";",
    "--",
    "foobar",
    "operator",
};

A winning program (53 characters long) might be:

class c {
  c operator->(){
    foobar: try{
    }
    catch(c x[]){
        x--;
    }
  }
};

Numbers are limited: minimum two people per team, maximum 12 teams.

Each team will need a laptop with wifi and a modern browser.

All programs will be written in the browser using a customized cyber-dojo [2] which will automatically tell you your program’s size, and your score.

NB Although scheduled in a conference room, this session will take place in the hotel bar – how else could it be a "pub quiz" if not held in a "pub".

[1] http://www.channel4.com/programmes/countdown

[2] http://cyber-dojo.org

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