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Coding4Fun Book Contest Winner!

imageIt’s time to announce the winner of my contest to win a copy of our Coding4Fun book!  15 people entered the contest via my forum.  I assigned each of them a 0-based index in the order in which they submitted their entry.  The final list was:

  • leif902 = 0
  • jcauble = 1
  • krakerjak = 2
  • RoryBecker = 3
  • amrkamel = 4
  • anonymous = 5
  • Arrowofdarkness = 6
  • qiuliocc = 7
  • hanan = 8
  • Amira = 9
  • helpware = 10
  • michaelb = 11
  • FunnyX = 12
  • John Bisschop = 13
  • juanformoso = 14
  • bringo = 15

Now, I did say you had to sign up using a valid user account, but the anonymous person linked to their blog which had contact info, so I decided to allow their entry in the mix….

To pick the winner, I wrote up a single line snippet in the ever-popular Snippet Compiler, pressed F5, and the result was…

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That’s number 11, which indexes to michaelb and his winning post!  Thanks to everyone that entered for their support and kind words!


Posted Mon, Mar 2 2009 4:28 AM by Brian Peek

Comments

Arrowofdarkness wrote re: Coding4Fun Book Contest Winner!
on Mon, Mar 2 2009 7:13 AM

Congrats michaelb!

Samuel Jack wrote re: Coding4Fun Book Contest Winner!
on Mon, Mar 2 2009 8:06 AM

Brian,

 Sorry about that: I signed up, using my real name as a user name and giving an email address, and I thought I was good to go. I guess I should have filled out my user profile.

Sam

Rory Becker wrote re: Coding4Fun Book Contest Winner!
on Mon, Mar 2 2009 8:29 AM

Indeed. My congrats also to michaelb

michaelb wrote re: Coding4Fun Book Contest Winner!
on Mon, Mar 2 2009 9:35 AM

Well THANK YOU VERY MUCH

This is only the second thing that I have *ever* won and I'm really stoked to sit and read a great book.

Most of us sit at machines to read all day long but a real book - it is starting to be like a great homemade meal.

I promise the community at large to loan this book to a University prof, several high school teachers plus some coder friends to use it to stir up interest in making a computer do something new that *you* want.

After all who is running the show, all these machines and software, or us?

-MichaelB from Ontario Canada

Thanks again!

FunnyX wrote re: Coding4Fun Book Contest Winner!
on Mon, Mar 2 2009 11:09 AM

Congrats!!  Man, I was close. :)

George Tsiokos wrote re: Coding4Fun Book Contest Winner!
on Mon, Mar 2 2009 12:35 PM

PowerShell:

> (new-object System.Random).Next(16)

7

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