2nd London D Programmers Meetup - Robot Tank Battle Tournament

[Kingsley via Digitalmars-d-announce]

On Wednesday, 25 March 2015 at 13:21:21 UTC, Iain Buclaw wrote:
> 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

Here is the video:
https://skillsmatter.com/skillscasts/6287-d-robot-tank-battle-tournament

the fun starts at 16:48