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Any form (mail, per email, with CD, GitHub repository) will do. Source code has to be available in electronic format, should be compilable / interpretable and your application should deliver correct results.

Your submissions can be in either German or English.

As stated by the website the submission date is January the 15th. Nontheless it is not clear to us which time is exactly meant. Is it just important to submit the project on the 15th, so between 0:00 and 23:59 or do we have to submit the project on the 14th 23:59 at the latest?

EDU does not have to contain both code and didactic material (one aspect is sufficient). One may argue that if the EDU category did not exist, many its repositories would fall into the DOCS category (some in the DEV category). In this sense, EDU is more specific on the educational purpose of the content as DOCS or DEV. One may also argue that if the HW category did not exist, most of its repositories would fall into the DEV category.

Hi,

with the addition of the additional data sets (thanks btw) there is a discussion we can't find a definitive answer about the WEB category.

Aspects

• english task description says used to host static ... websites
• german task doesn't include only static sites
• it says personal websites or blogs - what about other web sites
• your WEB test data contains a non-static jekyll repo: https://github.com/ianli/elbowpatched-boilerplate
• your example data and the additional test data contains multiple repositories of sourcecode of websites, which have to be compiled first but are classified as WEB (I read that the jury might have classified some differently)
• DEV doesn't explicitly specify web applications

In my opinion this repo of you https://github.com/whoisjuan/whoisjuan.github.io is a typical example for WEB, since it contains static files for a personal website.
I can agree that a repository of a jekyll site (like https://github.com/ianli/elbowpatched-boilerplate) can be included in WEB.
I can't 100% see why e.g. https://github.com/BloombergMedia/whatiscode should be counted as WEB - since it has to be built first. At the same time it is not really an application as it could be interpreted by using the DEV definition.

In summary we are not sure whether your definition of WEB matches your examples and might be too exclusive (only static and only personal sites and blogs) or should be interpreted more freely to include everything which can result in a website - which would be difficult since there could be almost no differences to a DEV repo.
Thanks in advance!

The evaluation criteria for each submission can be found here.

A convenience translation into English:

The jury of the competition is evaluating all submissions based on the criteria

• theoretical foundations / approach
• documentation
• software engineering
• UI/UX
• functionality

The order of these criteria is not the order of importance, you should put your focus on the areas as demanded in the actual challenge description. The following points are meant to give you a rough idea what the criteria are about and should not be interpreted too literally.

Theoretic foundations/approach

• Research
• Modelling
• Complexity analysis
• Effort estimation

Documentation

• consistency, completenesst and soundness
• structuring and layout
• code documentation

Software engineering

• concise documentation of requirements, design considerations and decisions
• concise documentation of tests, results and conclusions drawn
• quality of the software development approach, design decisions and test concept

UI / UX

• Usability
• Exciting extensions

Functionality:

• functional correctness and quality of the solution (according to the challenge description)
• verifiability of the test results

Just write an email to [email protected]

You can use any library that is also available to the jury. The source code of the library does not necessarily have to be available.

While the use of GitHub pages is a good indicator for the WEB category, it is neither a mandatory nor a satisfying requirement for this category. As mentioned in the challenge description, your documented decision process on how you came up with the labelling criteria is far more important than a 100 percent fit of your classification algorithm with the example data (which was chosen by humans and hence are subjective by definition).

You can use any programming language you find suitable to solve the challenge.