The Ace of Coders programming tournament champions

NKCSS wrote: post #2

That looks like so much fun :) [update] Hmm, just played 15 levels to find out I have to play $9.99/mo to continue :-/ Would be good to know that up front...

Just keep clicking the red levels–those are the free ones. The blue ones are the subscriber bonus levels.

Re: The Ace of Coders programming tournament champions

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Post by scobar » Wed, Oct 28, 2015, 6:12 PM UTC

Thank you for this. I didn't quite make it into the top 10, but it was a lot of fun. I really like what you guys are doing. I began learning to code by writing bots for games so your approach to teaching is a lot of fun. It looks like lots of others enjoy learning to code this way too.

I'm very curious about and hope that you'll post your opinion on the success of this tournament as a channel for hiring. This is a refreshing approach to filtering candidates that, hopefully, will be adopted by many others. I'm also curious to know if the tournament accelerated new user sign-ups. Perhaps the extra incentive (an interview was offered to the top 10 players) was enough to convince some to learn to code who would've put it off otherwise.

Thank you again. I hope the result of this tournament will be very positive for CodeCombat, and I wish you all the best moving forward.

Re: The Ace of Coders programming tournament champions

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Post by kornish » Wed, Oct 28, 2015, 6:44 PM UTC

bensandcastle wrote: post #3

Is it possible to get videos of the battles?

On http://codecombat.com/play/ladder/ace-of-coders#winners, there's a column of links which say "Watch the battle."

Re: The Ace of Coders programming tournament champions

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Post by thebouv » Wed, Oct 28, 2015, 6:51 PM UTC

I remember doing RoboCode in Java back in the day. Was fun to participate, though back then the best I could do was a bot that always ran middle of the pack in any tournament.

Re: The Ace of Coders programming tournament champions

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Post by DivisionSol » Wed, Oct 28, 2015, 7:23 PM UTC

bensandcastle wrote: post #3

Is it possible to get videos of the battles?

Hey, I made two videos for both sides of the finalists matches:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DVGbLH3P2j0

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uuPzEfJpfPY

Working on getting the quality better.

Re: The Ace of Coders programming tournament champions

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Post by kenjackson » Wed, Oct 28, 2015, 7:28 PM UTC

Are there instructions? I tried to do the warmup... I have no idea what is happening or what I'm supposed to do.

Re: The Ace of Coders programming tournament champions

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Post by dxbydt » Wed, Oct 28, 2015, 8:03 PM UTC

NKCSS wrote: post #2

That looks like so much fun :) [update] Hmm, just played 15 levels to find out I have to play $9.99/mo to continue :-/ Would be good to know that up front...

Did someone actually pay up ? I am curious to see if there's a market for something of this nature.