MATLAB Programming Contest Blog

November 2nd, 2011

The Fall 2011 MATLAB Programming contest is underway.

This season’s challenge is going to remind many of you of a favorite childhood game – the game 15-Puzzle! In this contest, use your MATLAB skills to create vines on a grid. Read Ned’s rules to learn more.

If you are new to our contests, take a look at If this is your first contest, you might want to read the Contest FAQ.  To be truly inspired, take a look at our Hall of Fame .

This contest runs from now through noon Boston time Wednesday November 9. If you have questions or comments, you may post them here or reply to this contest’s thread in Newsreader.

Good luck to everyone!

Helen and the Contest team

By Helen Chen

Helen is part of the MATLAB Central team. She spends her days hanging out with really cool folks online at MATLAB Central and at MathWorks HQ in Natick.

16:21 UTC | Posted in Announcements, MATLAB Contest, Vines | Permalink | 6 Comments »

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6 Responses to “Fall Contest Underway!”

1. Alan Chalker replied on November 2nd, 2011 at 19:22 UTC :
   

   It appears that something is wrong with the contest machinery. All the entries for the past 2 hours are listed a ‘pending queue’. A rather ominous start to the contest;)

2. Helen Chen replied on November 2nd, 2011 at 19:26 UTC :
   

   Thanks Alan! We’re looking into this now.

3. Helen Chen replied on November 2nd, 2011 at 23:17 UTC :
   

   The queue is back up. The submissions have all been processed at this point. Thanks for letting us know!

4. Sunke replied on November 3rd, 2011 at 11:32 UTC :
   

   Same problem now .. anything I submit is ‘pending queue’ but looking at the queue, it is empty …

5. Helen Chen replied on November 3rd, 2011 at 12:06 UTC :
   

   Sunke – So sorry for the inconvenience. In the queue or submission view, click on “All” to see everything regardless of status.

   The queue seems to be choking on submissions with non-english comments. I’ve removed the posts that were stuck and things seem to be processing correctly now.

   Again, my apologies for the inconvenience.

6. Helen Chen replied on November 3rd, 2011 at 20:46 UTC :
   

   We have fixed the problem so this should not reoccur. Thank you for your patience!

   Helen

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