Battlecode 2016

#1

Post by sabirc » Tue, Jan 05, 2016, 12:18 PM UTC

Battlecode 2016
battlecode.org

Re: Battlecode 2016

#2

Post by aflinik » Thu, Jan 07, 2016, 7:01 AM UTC

Why Java only?

Re: Battlecode 2016

#3

Post by dvorak42 » Thu, Jan 07, 2016, 7:35 AM UTC

aflinik wrote: post #2

Why Java only?

Since computation is measured by bytecode cost of instructions, supporting other languages would require a great deal of effort to do similar bytecode counting and to make sure that the counting across languages is fair and balanced. They've considered doing other forms of computation measurement, but none of the alternatives are very good or deterministic (time, lower-level instruction counting, etc).

Re: Battlecode 2016

#4

Post by aleksis » Thu, Jan 07, 2016, 8:46 AM UTC

aflinik wrote: post #2

Why Java only?

Also you can use Scala.

Re: Battlecode 2016

#5

Post by WeaselNo7 » Thu, Jan 07, 2016, 9:04 AM UTC

Are there any ongoing tournaments for this or similar? I'd love to get involved, but I feel like I wouldn't get the most benefit from this by starting from scratch so late in the game.

Re: Battlecode 2016

#6

Post by axcqwerty » Thu, Jan 07, 2016, 4:49 PM UTC

WeaselNo7 wrote: post #5

Are there any ongoing tournaments for this or similar? I'd love to get involved, but I feel like I wouldn't get the most benefit from this by starting from scratch so late in the game.

For Battlecode it's not too late to start. Plenty of people are still getting started. The competition lasts until January 30th and it's only the 4th day.