I hope it is not too late to inform this. Since I have no time for blogging this month.
Pimnas IT was held on Satya Wacana Christian University, Salatiga at October 29 - November 2, 2007. One of its categories is called LPIKM (Lomba Produk Inovasi dan Kreativitas Mahasiswa). In the category, Team A3 (Amel, Ario, and Ali), which was representing STT Telkom, delivered a project named UCIL that means a programming language simulator "Untuk Anak Kecil". Much like Zeddy's AYU, its syntax is also based on Bahasa Indonesia. (although I think it is not a fair comparison, because AYU is far more complex and UCIL strong point is on its animation).
The most interesting point of UCIL is that it was developed on .NET 3.0 and powered by Microsoft Silverlight. Those technologies that I guess were fairly foreign to the judges.
After presenting their product in front of the judges, Team A3 was finally announced as the winner and awarded with Rp 7.500.000. Just want you to know, nearly all teams participating there were using Java, Team A3 was the only one who used .NET.
The news can be seen here.
I have been introducing Microsoft technologies for about three months here and Windows Presentation Foundation gains much attention from students of STT Telkom. Many students have changed their interests from Flash to Silverlight, from Java to .NET, etc. Don't get me wrong. I never force them to use Microsoft technologies, I only give them alternative. *peace*
At least, I think I have done my job as an evangelist.