Year 2008:

This is a High Low guessing game which was assigned as the goal for a coding competition by State Farm. The project itself required only a text based game, but there were several optional assignments that made the project harder such as a GUI or to make the program remember past games. Bellow is the original project that was turned in, which Alex Bartol and myself made. Additionally there is an edited and cleaned version for distribution, that I made after the competition.

Alex Bartol and I were one of the four finalist teams at the competition, and the only freshmen in college there, competing against seniors. Congratulations to Harry Presman and Kyle Taylor, the Grand prize winners of the competition from Iowa University.

 

Version About Download
1.0 This is the original version made for the State Farm competition. It still contains all bugs and errors from its original completion for the project. 
NOTE: The Java launcher on Mac OSX has some problems with this jar file, using the command-line java -jar HighLowOrig.jar will run it properly.
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1.02 This is the modified version, that has corrected previous bugs and visual anomalies.
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Year 2011:

Alex and I entered the competition again in 2012, placing in the final 5 teams. The initial competition gave us a specification to implement and unit tests that we had to pass. Though I can not share the code, Alex and I were the only team to complete and pass all unit tests. The finalist competition was more free form. Each team was given laptops, and one laptop had the code for a largish web-server project, with no directive. Alex and I chose to do validation testing. I did white box testing using the machine that had the source cod, Alex did black box testing using the other laptop.

Congratulations to Matt Jurik, from the University of Illinois, the Gran prize winner.