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Online server-based quiz game match tournament thing

The only picture I could find remotely related to this post.


I know, I'm amazing at naming stuff.

Anyway, as if focusing two-ongoing projects wasn't enough, I've decided to launch a third one.

This basically started off as an idea for an activity for my Computer Science class, but like all my ideas, it was too ambitious to fit that small mold and hence I decided to make it its own thing.

We were told to do some kinda project based on cyber-security, and I got the idea of developing a game that tests your ability to gauge scams and online phishing techniques ( I need to brush up on those topics) and actively avoid them. The game would involve judging whether emails were harmful based on certain ques and traits and deleting them correspondingly (this was one of the first ideas that occurred to me).

A number of players would all compete against each other for the fastest time taken to complete the game. They would be awarded points for every right action. An algorithm would be used that would record people's time and subsequently add 30 seconds to it every time that person got scammed or become cybercrime victims. The person with the lowest time taken wins.

This idea sounds really exciting, but because I'm a novice at this I decided to dumb it down for now and do the game part later. It was going to be a quiz. And if that sounds familiar, because that's basically what Kahoot! is. Or at least that's what I think it is. (I've never played Kahoot!)

I don't know how I did it, but I managed to copy something without even trying.

Anyway, I decided to go ahead with the quiz because the important part of this project wasn't the game itself, it was the online play. Something that I'm excited to try out. Which as I understand now, involves socketing.

So then I embarked on a quest to learn socketing and network hosting and server-client systems. And that's where I'm currently standing. I'm sorry I don't have any code to show right now, but I really felt like making a blog post and I had to convince myself that I wasn't making a big fuss of it.

I really wanted to note all this down somewhere because a goldfish would commit suicide if it found out it lost its world record of the world's shortest memory to some human kid with an innate ability to procrastinate. 


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