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digitalmars.D.announce - 2nd London D Programmers Meetup - Robot Tank Battle Tournament

reply "Kingsley" <kingsley.hendrickse gmail.com> writes:
Hi,

The second London D Programmers Meetup is now officially 
scheduled for Tuesday 24th March. As usual it's sponsored by 
Skills Matter and will be at their awesome training facility.

This meetup will be all about an awesome robot battle tournament. 
Come along and bring your laptop and be prepared to build a tank 
robot that can destroy the opposition in our custom made 2D 
battle arena. I've used the very excellent DSFML library for the 
graphics so it's looks nice :)

If we come up with a super tank we may start challenging other D 
meetup groups to a robot tank battle royale extravaganza!! So 
watch out!!!

Here are the details - spread the word:

http://www.meetup.com/London-D-Programmers/events/220610394/

thanks

--Kingsley
Feb 26 2015
parent reply "Kingsley" <kingsley.hendrickse gmail.com> writes:
Just a reminder - this is happening next Tuesday - please come 
along if you are in London and fancy a bit of D programming fun.

On Thursday, 26 February 2015 at 15:56:13 UTC, Kingsley wrote:

 Hi,

 The second London D Programmers Meetup is now officially 
 scheduled for Tuesday 24th March. As usual it's sponsored by 
 Skills Matter and will be at their awesome training facility.

 This meetup will be all about an awesome robot battle 
 tournament. Come along and bring your laptop and be prepared to 
 build a tank robot that can destroy the opposition in our 
 custom made 2D battle arena. I've used the very excellent DSFML 
 library for the graphics so it's looks nice :)

 If we come up with a super tank we may start challenging other 
 D meetup groups to a robot tank battle royale extravaganza!! So 
 watch out!!!

 Here are the details - spread the word:

 http://www.meetup.com/London-D-Programmers/events/220610394/

 thanks

 --Kingsley
Mar 19 2015
parent reply "Kingsley" <kingsley.hendrickse gmail.com> writes:
 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.
Mar 24 2015
parent reply "wobbles" <grogan.colin gmail.com> writes:
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?)
Mar 25 2015
next sibling parent Russel Winder via Digitalmars-d-announce writes:
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:
=20
 http://www.meetup.com/London-D-Programmers/events/220610394/
=20
 thanks
=20
 --Kingsley




=20
 Thanks for all who came to the D meetup. The champion tank of=20
 the evening goes to runaway.d by Justin & Priya which defeated=20
 all challengers swiftly and in style :)
=20
 Looking forward to the next meetup.


=20
 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=20
strategy. It can be characterized by a quote from Monty Python and the=20
Holy Grail:  run away, run away.

Whilst there, I didn't get around to writing a tank strategy, I spent=20
too long looking at, and analysing, Kingsley's little framework =E2=80=93 o=
h=20
and chatting with Laeeth about D, Go, computational finance, etc.

Kingsley's code is (mostly) great; hopefully I and others can help=20
evolve this via pull requests, to be something we can put before CAS=20
and others for inclusion in Key Stage 3 and 4 educational materials.=20
<Long explanation of new UK computing education system elided.> This=20
would be a great way of getting young people interested in native code=20
after Scratch and Python. D and Java would be a good combination.

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Mar 25 2015
prev sibling parent reply Iain Buclaw via Digitalmars-d-announce writes:
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 =E2=80=93=


 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
Mar 25 2015
parent "Kingsley" <kingsley.hendrickse gmail.com> writes:
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
Mar 27 2015