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This year at WWDC Student Sunday, Aaron Hillegass gave a talk on Cocoa design patterns and data structures. It was an interesting talk, as usual, but the most interesting part is the contest he is sponsoring:

The Bonzo Collection of Reusable Classes for Cocoa
I think we all agree that it would be good if there were a large collection of tested, documented classes that could be used in a variety of Cocoa applications. To kick-start this effort, Big Nerd Ranch is holding a contest. Give us a few classes (or categories or functions) for the project, and you may win a free seat in a Big Nerd Ranch class.

The contest is open to anyone.

You need ideas?

Data structures: balanced trees, ordered sets and dictionaries, etc.
Wrap C libraries: gzip, OpenSSL, BerkeleyDB, Thunderbird client libraries, etc.
Artificial Intelligence: classes for neural nets, simulated annealing, Hidden Markov Models, etc. (Read “AI Application Programming” by Tim Jones.)

Big Nerd Ranch

Totally awesome, I’m hoping that this contest will spawn a whole collection of code, like the former MiscKit. I’d love to participate, however, I’ve got enough on my plate with Kiwi. Are you participiting?