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Win $10,000 by creating a race car bot in haskell, scala or clojure

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Re: Win $10,000 by creating a race car bot in haskell, scala or clojure

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Post by jfim »

It's not only those three languages.

From the rules[1]: Programming languages that are currently available for selection are C, C# / Mono, Clojure, CoffeeScript, Haskell, Java, JavaScript, Python, Ruby, Scala, Go. At the moment, due to technical reasons, we cannot 100% guarantee that all of these will be supported, but we'll do our best. You can change the programming language at any time.

[1] https://helloworldopen.com/rules

Re: Win $10,000 by creating a race car bot in haskell, scala or clojure

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Post by miahi »

jfim wrote: post #2

It's not only those three languages. From the rules[1]: Programming languages that are currently available for selection are C, C# / Mono, Clojure, CoffeeScript, Haskell, Java, JavaScript, Python, Ruby, Scala, Go. At the moment, due to technical reasons, we cannot 100% guarantee that all of these will be supported, but we'll do our best. You can change the programming language at any time. [1] https://helloworldopen.…

Also, first prize is $5000, not $10000 - that's the sum of all prizes. You also have to travel to Finland to participate in the finals.

Re: Win $10,000 by creating a race car bot in haskell, scala or clojure

#5

Post by jkytomak »

miahi wrote: post #3
jfim wrote: post #2

It's not only those three languages. From the rules[1]: Programming languages that are currently available for selection are C, C# / Mono, Clojure, CoffeeScript, Haskell, Java, JavaScript, Python, Ruby, Scala, Go. At the moment, due to technical reasons, we cannot 100% guarantee that all of these will be supported, but we'll do our best. You can change the programming language at any time. [1] https://helloworldopen.…

Also, first prize is $5000, not $10000 - that's the sum of all prizes. You also have to travel to Finland to participate in the finals.

From the rules[1]: "The six teams that fight their way to the finals will receive a four-day, all-expenses paid trip to Helsinki, Finland. The trip will include great company, delicious food and one heck of a tour in the capital city of Finland."

[1] https://helloworldopen.com/rules

Re: Win $10,000 by creating a race car bot in haskell, scala or clojure

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Post by [deleted] »

miahi wrote: post #3
jfim wrote: post #2

It's not only those three languages. From the rules[1]: Programming languages that are currently available for selection are C, C# / Mono, Clojure, CoffeeScript, Haskell, Java, JavaScript, Python, Ruby, Scala, Go. At the moment, due to technical reasons, we cannot 100% guarantee that all of these will be supported, but we'll do our best. You can change the programming language at any time. [1] https://helloworldopen.…

Also, first prize is $5000, not $10000 - that's the sum of all prizes. You also have to travel to Finland to participate in the finals.

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Re: Win $10,000 by creating a race car bot in haskell, scala or clojure

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Post by roryokane »

ah- wrote: post #4

Signed up in the hope to find some time to have a go at this. But it would be great to have some idea what the task will be beyond "creating a race car bot".

There is a slightly longer description in the Technical Instructions section on the Rules page (https://helloworldopen.com/rules):

“The goal is to create an AI for a simple real time racing game. Your AI will sit on the drivers seat of a racing car and race against others AIs on different virtual tracks. The server will send you track details and car positions and your job is to send car control messages to the server. You'll communicate with a game server using JSON over TCP. More details will be delivered later.”

Re: Win $10,000 by creating a race car bot in haskell, scala or clojure

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Post by miahi »

jkytomak wrote: post #5
miahi wrote: post #3

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Also, first prize is $5000, not $10000 - that's the sum of all prizes. You also have to travel to Finland to participate in the finals.

From the rules[1]: "The six teams that fight their way to the finals will receive a four-day, all-expenses paid trip to Helsinki, Finland. The trip will include great company, delicious food and one heck of a tour in the capital city of Finland." [1] https://helloworldopen.com/rules

Yes. Sorry, I was reading below, but that was another event:

"All six finalist teams will get exclusive tickets to the to-be-sold-out tech conference of the year Reaktor Dev Day, worth 500e/piece. More information on the conference. Travel and accommodations costs are not included."

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