{"id":45750,"date":"2012-10-11T11:40:01","date_gmt":"2012-10-11T09:40:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/?p=45750"},"modified":"2012-10-11T11:43:25","modified_gmt":"2012-10-11T09:43:25","slug":"r100k-sa-entelect-coding-tournament-winner-announced","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/business\/45750-r100k-sa-entelect-coding-tournament-winner-announced","title":{"rendered":"R100K SA Entelect coding tournament winner announced"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_45755\" style=\"width: 209px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/JacoCronje.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-45755\" class=\" wp-image-45755 \" title=\"JacoCronje\" src=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/JacoCronje.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"199\" height=\"281\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-45755\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Jaco Cronje<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Entelect Software, in partnership with NAG magazine, have wrapped up their R100,000 coding competition.<\/p>\n<p>Jaco Cronje was the winner, and walked away with the R100,000 prize. Gustav Mauer took the runner up position.<\/p>\n<p>At the final, the coders competed by writing an AI (artificial intelligence) program with the ability to take on an opponent in a game of light-bikes, made popular by Tron.<\/p>\n<p>Cronje, an Image Processing Researcher in the Optronic Sensor Systems group at CSIR, was thrilled with his victory.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I enjoy working on difficult programming challenges with my experience ranging from embedded software development to game programming, 3D graphics, virtual-reality simulator development and more, so this challenge and winning it has been the most amazing experience,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\">Related Articles<\/h3>\n<p><a title=\"rAge 2012 officially the biggest ever\" href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/news\/45749-rage-2012-officially-the-biggest-ever.html\"><strong>rAge 2012 officially the biggest ever<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/features\/45407-rage-2012-what-did-you-think.html\">rAge 2012 \u2013 what did you think?<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/features\/45403-nag-lan-rage-2012-the-gamers-speak.html\">NAG LAN @ rAge 2012 \u2013 the gamers speak<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/features\/45491-rage-2012-lan-gallery.html\">rAge 2012: LAN gallery<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/features\/45492-rage-2012-the-show-in-pictures.html\">rAge 2012: the show in pictures<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>R100,000 coding challenge wrapped up with one man walking away a lot wealthier<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":157,"featured_media":41531,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sma_x_autopost_status":"idle","_sma_x_autopost_error":"","_sma_x_post_id":"","_sma_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[5764,31,5765,5766,5767,5768,5770,2144,5769,2452,5191,2052,4930],"class_list":["post-45750","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-business","tag-100k-challenge","tag-active","tag-coding","tag-coding-competition","tag-entelect","tag-entelect-software","tag-local-competition","tag-nag","tag-new-age-gaming","tag-rage-2012","tag-sa-game-dev","tag-sa-gaming","tag-south-african-gaming"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45750","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/157"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=45750"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45750\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/41531"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=45750"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=45750"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=45750"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}