just a quick question. I made a computer program in VISUAL Basic.net for my sci fair and the judges thought it was bog standard code! How can I (if possible) prove it wasn't? (and it really wasn't, it took me 3 months to write!)From what I could FIND out, bog standard code is defined as something ordinary or basic, but often in a dismissive or derogatory way. Not knowing what your program does or what wow factor the judges were LOOKING for, it's hard to say what you could do in this situation.

Perhaps you could use this as a learning experience for next year. In the long run you CAME out ahead anyway....you learned VB.NET!

I wonder if Bones92 meant that the judges thought that his code was example code cribbed from a VB examples or tutorial site or other source or copied out of a book.

The best way to show that code is yours, in my opinion, is to document it thoroughly, (plenty of remarks) know it inside out, keep early draft and test versions to demonstrate the development process, and write a kind of 'lab REPORT' detailing how you wrote the code and why you did it the way you did.

What did you mean, Bones92?

i heard from one of the teachers in charge they thought my code was just that: example code that had been changed a bit. As it was a science fair, i did have logs of everything i had done and when I wrote it, plenty of remarks, three flow charts detailing how the program ran... and they thought it was all something nicked of a tutorial site. (even though the program when run told the user I had made it.) Maybe because I acknowledged the MSDN library in my evaluation? (but I had too, MSDN tought me how to program lol)This happens. Just goes to show the poor standard of knowledge that many science fair judges have. There's not really any way you can prove it's your code. They are going to believe what they are going to believe. At least you know it's yours and you know you can do it again. Which means you can improve on it. Don't let them get you down. Just keep plugging away and keep improving your skill set.I think that what the judges may have meant was, not that you plagiarized your code, but that the project concept was one which you might find on a code demo site, or a thousand other places, that it was not sufficiently unusual or original, even if you did write all the code yourself.