Quickscript competition update

The competition has had an exciting week with both entries from existing and new contributors.

• CVE Search by robertpostill
• design-recipe-template - builds a simple design recipe template for a function whose name is highlighted entry by smtuttle
• show-highlighted - a demo of using 2htdp/universe displays the highlighted text "flashing" 5 times in a World-window in random colors by smtuttle
• defines: List and search top level definitions by Metaxal
• Open Racket news and events in the browser by spdegabrielle
• Eyes are following you by spdegabrielle
• Letterfall: See you code fall like rocks! by Metaxal
• Run this quickscript to install all scripts from the competition! by Metaxal
• Breakout! by soegaard
• Format-selection by alex-hhh
• Robo-Head-Pat by Lambduli
• Rot13 Decode/Encode by Karrq

how to install entries so far

You can manually install a new scripts individually or run the entries installer to install the lot

1. click the Scripts menu in DrRacket and click Manage Scripts > New script...
2. enter the name "competition-2020" or the name of the script you are installing
3. paste in the script or the entries installer into the new file and save
4. click Scripts > Manage Scripts > Compile Scripts and Reload
5. run the script from the Scripts menu

You can check, edit and disable the scripts via the library: Scripts > Manage scripts > Library...

how to enter

1. create a gist or snippet or pasterack of your script
2. submit your entry

prizes

Prizes are limited but still available! Enter while stocks last.

In addition to the glory and admiration of your peers…

• If you participate once, you get stickers, and an exclusive badge for your GitHub profile recognising your efforts and contribution to the community.
• if you participate twice time, you get also a mug,
• if you participate three times, you get also a t-shirt

You can participate more than once.

Reminders:

A) quickscript uses standard racket no special scripting language - and you can require any package you like B) no installation required quickscript is already part of DrRacket

Have you have any trouble using quickscript?

• please let me know as an important outcome of this competition is identifying barriers to use; I’ll do my best to help resolve any issues.

Need inspiration?

• check out the existing entries or look at the scripts in scripts-extra

More info at the competition repo: https://github.com/Quickscript-Competiton/July2020entries/blob/master/README.md