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Winner of the F# programming contest

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Back at the beginning of the year I launched a programming contest for using F# with Autodesk products. A few months ago I introduced one of the winning entries showing how to use F# to implement Overrules in AutoCAD 2010. Now I've finally got around to unveiling the second winning entry.

And the winner is… drumroll…

Nada Amin, who entered her Master of Engineering project which uses F# with AutoCAD. Here is a description of the project from the MIT website:

Micado: an AutoCAD plug-in for programmable microfluidic chips

Programmable microfluidics, using multi-layer soft lithography, are lab-on-chip systems that can automate biological computations or experiments by integrating a diverse set of biological sensors and by manipulating fluids at the picoliter scale.

Micado is a Computer-Aided Design (CAD) tool for designing and controlling programmable microfluidics, featuring:

  • standard and customizable design rules
  • automatic routing between control valves and punches
  • automatic generation of control instructions and GUI

The code is hosted here (under which you will find the majority of the code having been written in F#).

Nada is now based over in Zürich, so I hope someday to meet with her to discuss the project in person, but in the meantime I'll be shipping across a copy of Expert F#.

Congratulations, Nada! 🙂

4 responses to “Winner of the F# programming contest”

  1. J. Daniel Smith Avatar
    J. Daniel Smith

    You should re-run the contest after Visual Studio 2010 (and/or the next version of AutoCAD) ships and F# is then a "real" product...assuming they work together with things like the new CLR.

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  2. Kean Walmsley Avatar
    Kean Walmsley

    By then the number of entries would make the contest much more difficult to judge (and I'll have run out of books to give away :-).

    It's true I could have waited, but the opportunity was there and it was interesting to see the response, even if only from early adopters.

    Kean

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  3. Bobby Jones Avatar
    Bobby Jones

    Hmmm...after a very brief look at Nada's code, I can say without a doubt that I need the book much more than she does 🙂

    Congratulations Nada, that's very impressive.

    Bobby

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  4. Nada Amin Avatar
    Nada Amin

    Hi Bobby Jones,

    Thanks for the sweet message. And in fact, you're right. So please, feel free to send me an email with an address at which to ship the book.

    Reply

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