[njamietech]

Originally Posted by EricH

How about having a professional programmer look over each team's code? One programmer could foreseeably look at several teams in one area. So you get a dozen or so at each event, they look over the code and make suggestions. One restriction, though: Can't look over your own team's code, if you're on a team. Offer constructive criticism to help the team out. If he says, "I can't make heads or tails of this", then you know you don't have enough comments, descriptive variable names, whitespace, etc.

Hmm, even before the events, too, maybe.

There are competitions that have this sort of thing on a regular basis, though maybe not in programming.

I actually really like that Idea.