Re: Research study volunteers: implement a text-adventure game in lua for $50

[Sean Conner <sean@...>]

It was thus said that the Great Alawami, Zahrah once stated:
> Participants Needed For Research on Incremental, Interactive Type-checking for Lua
> 
> We are looking for volunteers to take part in a study of Incremental,
> Interactive Type-checking for Lua.The study investigates how type systems
> improve interactive development environments. The study requires the
> participants to implement a text-adventure game interactively in Lua,
> using a specific editor that will be supplied to them. Upon completion of
> the required tasks, the participants are asked to complete a survey that
> will help us identify what kind of effect a type system have on
> interactive development style and, eventually, how to maximize the
> utilization of interactive environments. The participants will have
> twenty-two days to complete the implementation and the survey. The
> participants will have to submit their code with the completed survey. To
> be eligible to participate in this study, you need to be at least a novice
> Lua programmer.

  Two questions:  

	1) Can someone above "novice" level still particpate?  It's not
	   entirely clear from your description.

	2) What platform/operating systems are supported?  

  -spc (who's afraid it's "Windows only" ... )