2nd London D Programmers Meetup - Robot Tank Battle Tournament

Iain Buclaw via Digitalmars-d-announce digitalmars-d-announce at puremagic.com
Wed Mar 25 06:21:10 PDT 2015


On 25 Mar 2015 12:15, "Russel Winder via Digitalmars-d-announce" <
digitalmars-d-announce at puremagic.com> wrote:
>
> On Wed, 2015-03-25 at 11:25 +0000, wobbles via Digitalmars-d-announce
wrote:
> > On Tuesday, 24 March 2015 at 23:32:38 UTC, Kingsley wrote:
> > > > > Here are the details - spread the word:
> > > > >
> > > > > http://www.meetup.com/London-D-Programmers/events/220610394/
> > > > >
> > > > > thanks
> > > > >
> > > > > --Kingsley
> > >
> > > Thanks for all who came to the D meetup. The champion tank of
> > > the evening goes to runaway.d by Justin & Priya which defeated
> > > all challengers swiftly and in style :)
> > >
> > > Looking forward to the next meetup.
> >
> > Any videos of the fights? (Or were they all robot fights?)
>
> The activity was captured by the good folk of Skills Matter.
>
> It is worth noting the name of the winning "tank" exemplified it's
> strategy. It can be characterized by a quote from Monty Python and the
> Holy Grail:  run away, run away.
>
> Whilst there, I didn't get around to writing a tank strategy, I spent
> too long looking at, and analysing, Kingsley's little framework – oh
> and chatting with Laeeth about D, Go, computational finance, etc.
>
> Kingsley's code is (mostly) great; hopefully I and others can help
> evolve this via pull requests, to be something we can put before CAS
> and others for inclusion in Key Stage 3 and 4 educational materials.
> <Long explanation of new UK computing education system elided.> This
> would be a great way of getting young people interested in native code
> after Scratch and Python. D and Java would be a good combination.
>

Great stuff. I would have tried to come up, but with moving home and all...
Vacated the flat this morning. :-o

Iain
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