[Sei]

Welcome, welcome.

As we brainstormed contests for this event, we realized that we wanted to have a few different contests. We realized that very few events had ever had a coding contest, so we thought we'd give those who have some coding experience a chance to win some prizes. All you need to do is:

The function "Special($n)" will return the user ID of the username passed as its parameter.

$p = "Coda and Lucid and Ashy and Fenris okay";
$l = chr(32);
$o = array();
$z = Special("Inari");
$w = $p[42];
for($i = 0; $i < 24; $i++) {
    if($p[$i] == $l) {
        if($w == "and") {
            echo $i;
        } else {
            $o[] = $z . $w;
            $z = Special($w);
        }
        $w = $l[$i];
    } else {
        $w = $w . $p[$i];
    }
}
echo chr(13) . chr(10);
foreach($o as $k) {
    echo $k;
    echo chr(13) . chr(10);
}

Find out what the code outputs at the end. When you think you have the answer, please send me a PM. When people solve this first one, more codes can be released!

As for prizes, those who answer correctly will receive:

• 1st Place - 40 Runes, 7,000 Aurum
• 2nd Place - 20 Runes, 5,000 Aurum
• 3rd Place - 3,000 Aurum

[Panda]

Good luck to everyone who enter this contest. :]

[Espy]

-confuzzled but completely determined- I think Funkduder might have a better chance than me, though.

[Duchess]

My bf is trying to explain this language to me....

I totally fail... hard >.<''

GOOD LUCK Y'ALL

[Coda]

Don't let the fact that it's code scare you off! And if you don't know PHP, don't be afraid of that either! All this takes is problem solving, patience, and the ability to follow instructions.

If you have questions about anything -- about what various bits of syntax do, for instance -- please ask.

[Duchess]

@___@ I just attempted this... My result makes not much sense. Is the output supposed to be clever or just...output

[Cazzidy]

-=What you're allergic to cats?...=-

Ooohhh!!! Coding Contest... I'll try solving this when i am at the office... so excited!...

-=It's alright, I'm allergic to you...=-

[Sei]

Originally Posted by Duchess

@___@ I just attempted this... My result makes not much sense. Is the output supposed to be clever or just...output

It's code, so I don't think it's supposed to be clever. If you PM me your answer, I can tell you if you're right or at least on the right track. *nods*

[Coda]

It's just output. It doesn't actually mean anything. It's supposed to be hard to guess without actually following what it's trying to do. :P

[Duchess]

Yeh.. I sent it in and it turned out to be right! Go me!

Seems like all languages are similar in some way

[Coda]

They really are! Once you've gotten good at one programming language you can usually pick up others pretty easily.

[Sage]

I'm working on this! Hopefully I'm not too far off track.

[Serra Britt]

I look and look and I'm just totally lost >< It's sad because it's not like I've never used programming languages before...I just don't think I understand the variables at all :/

[Coda]

Well, I intentionally used one-letter variable names just to obscure the meaning of the code.

I AM pulling a nasty trick with the string indexing. (That's what the $x[y] syntax is -- the y'th character in the string $x.)

[Duchess]

I AGREE! That was nasty >_>

I thought I was doing something wrong at that part.....

[Espy]

-annoyed at the "$"- I'm...working on it...
Not even completely sure what language this is in...