proteus guy wrote:
> I'm game. Can you describe what the competition was last time and what
> you did? What languages/tools do you anticipate we'd be using.
The task description is here:
http://smlnj.org/icfp08-contest/task.html
My code is here:
http://svn.felspar.com/public/icfp/2008/trunk/
Taking last year's as a template it could have been handled by a few
loosely coupled teams:
* Build and submission -- the entry had to be capable of building
and running on a VM run by the competition organisers. This meant
building a build system as part of the submissions and making sure
that the builds would work on the target environment.
* Telemetry and rover control -- Not a huge task, but absolutely
critical.
* AI -- Where most of the work and the ideas was needed. The rover
controller would need to provide a good API for this. My AI was
the simplest possible as I didn't have time to put any real work
into it.
* Map generation -- The organisers supplied some simple test maps,
but to really exercise the AI and control systems more maps would
have been useful. I didn't make any.
* A/B AI testing -- Something I didn't even have time to think about
last year, but some sort of system or procedure to test the AIs
against each other and the maps to make a decision about which
should be submitted.
This could all be handled by a small team, or broken out to a few larger
teams concentrating on each area.
For infrastructure, Felspar can provide a Subversion server and an issue
tracker/wiki (on our Support site).
If it was just me, I'd probably mainly use C++ and Python -- Python for
speed of development, and C++ for execution speed. I'd use Boost.Python
to plug them together. For a larger team though I think it'd be
important that people could use their preferred languages.
It's almost certainly an early optimisation to try to work out what the
correct team structure would be and the right tools until we've seen the
problem. Last year the submission was source code that the organisers
had to build and run, in most previous years it has been the answer to
what amounts to a number of complex riddles. Which of these is used this
year will make a huge difference to how we structure ourselves and what
the important tasks are.
K
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