Imagine Cup "Solve This" have been a part of the Imagine Cup since 2003 and every year, am delighted and surprised at how it gets better and better. This world-wide competition brings together students from all over the world and showcases young developers, designers anden-USTelligent Evolution Platform Developer Build (Build: 5.6.50428.7875)re: Imagine Cup "Solve This", 11 Dec 2010 23:03:43 GMT91d46819-8472-40ad-a661-2c78acb4018c:10103661Marcello<p>I think DreamSpark is a good idea. But I don&#39;t like the word &quot;competition&quot;. Why not to encourage cooperation instead so everbody who is seriously interested can participate in the challenge? </p> <p>That brings a new question: who will openly cooperate when money is involved. Who will share an idea worth perhaps millions or billions with another who he or she doesnt know?</p> <p>The organization of our society is already broken by money. We should find a fix to our society first and the go after the problems that are a consequence of our society being broken.</p> <p>&quot;325,000 students stepped up to the challenge, with the top 400 ultimately making&quot;</p> <p>This can be read also as &quot;there were 324.600 programmers left out&quot;. </p> <p>This is big mistake. The world cannnot afford to leave nobody out when there is a huge backlog of problems and a severe drought of new talents.</p> <div style="clear:both;"></div><img src="" width="1" height="1">re: Imagine Cup "Solve This", 07 Dec 2010 14:29:27 GMT91d46819-8472-40ad-a661-2c78acb4018c:10101329Nate<p>@Dave, from reading your post, its hard to see your experience with .net. I&#39;ve been using .net tools over the last 5 years, and I&#39;ve never thought It was as clunky as you&#39;ve described. Yes, the new versions releases can be a little rough, but you just hold out for the first service pack, and its rock solid.</p> <p>Visual Studio 2008 has had 3+ years of shelf life, building on the exact same framework of code that has been around since .net&#39;s inception, which was released a little under 10 years ago. I&#39;d say that is a pretty darn long shelf life!</p> <p>&lt;/rant&gt;</p> <div style="clear:both;"></div><img src="" width="1" height="1">re: Imagine Cup "Solve This", 22 Nov 2010 20:46:04 GMT91d46819-8472-40ad-a661-2c78acb4018c:10095111Dave<p>You mentioned &quot;professional-level developer tools and learn new technologies&quot; which one are you referring as Microsoft only release unstable Betaware now-a-days and none of which have a shelf life long enough to permit anyone to learn them. I wondering if Microsoft submitted it&#39;s visual studio development tool as that is a real world challenge since every developer faces challenges using it. I imagine too Soma, a world without visual studio 20xx and .net and the return of productive development tools, everyone can dream I suppose.</p> <div style="clear:both;"></div><img src="" width="1" height="1">