Re: Make with Ada 2019 : DogRobot

[Niklas Holsti <niklas.holsti@tidorum.invalid>]

On 19-03-26 15:05 , Rego, P. wrote:

> Now that the winners are chosen (3 weeks late from original date),
> the first place is a 40 LINES OF CODE project. 1/3 of the project
> description is totally unrelevant (explaining how light is used in
> Photography, Astronomy and Architecture), and another big part
> explaining unrelated facts to the project (how a LDR works??).
> No swdesign, no system architecture???

As I understand the rules of the "Make with Ada" competition 
(https://www.hackster.io/contests/adacore/rules#requirements) they do 
not explicitly require a public document or description that is focussed 
on the SW and/or on the Ada language.

They require some properties and content of the _submission_. The 
project should be submitted through the "hackster.io" site. The IP 
conditions grant rights only to the Organizer and the Panelists, not to 
the general public.

The "openness" of the project is (only) one of the judging criteria.

However, I too am surprised that this project was given first prize with 
such a small amount of code.

> The 3rd winner was implemented mostly in Python according to the
> project description,

According to the description of that project, Python was used only to 
display the acquired data, transmitted from the microcontroller over a 
serial interface to a Raspberry Pi. The data acquisition and the neural 
network on the microcontroller were implemented in Ada. It seems to me 
that this is an acceptable level of Python contamination.

> and the Ada code is not available (actually no
> code whatsoever).

See above re openness and IP conditions. Moreover, it seems that the 
code is indeed now on gitlab 
(https://gitlab.com/Angelgzgc/neuralhearthmonitor/tree/master).

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