The Winners of the Qt Programming Contest are known

The winner of VAMK’s first Qt programming contest is Lawal Olufowobi with his project titled “WinhaProject”. It is an application which gets information needed by students on a regular basis, such as email, grades and calendar in a simple, easy format. Using this application, students don't need to log on to different sites; instead all the information needed is available within one program.

The runner up is Marek Krajewski with his project titled "QuickDict". After starting, the application loads into the task-bar and waits for a change in system clipboard. After that a pop up window appears with Google and Dictionary.com translation of the clipboard content. The translated word/sentence is automatically saved in a “recently translated” list. The pop up translation can be disabled through the tray-Icon context menu.

The judges evaluated each project based on creativity, relevance, code quality and functionality. The contest was intended for a third year IT student (English or Finnish line) or an Erasmus exchange student in the IT department.

Qt makes it easy to add and interact with web content in your C++ applications. This can be done through web services (e.g., SOAP) or even embed parts of a web site using QtWebKit. Participants’ application should made use of these capabilities in order to enhance and simplify its usability.

The programming contest was sponsored by: http://www.genesi-usa.com/

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