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@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
