Battlecode 2015 – AI Programming Competition
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Battlecode 2015 – AI Programming Competition
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Re: Battlecode 2015 – AI Programming Competition
#2While some of it is open to non-MIT students, it looks like to continue through to the finals you need at least 50% MIT students on your team.
Should be fun anyway.
Re: Battlecode 2015 – AI Programming Competition
#3Looks fun!
> What are the supported programming languages?
Java and Scala.
What's the most interesting version of a competition like this which doesn't place restrictions on implementation language?
Re: Battlecode 2015 – AI Programming Competition
#4While some of it is open to non-MIT students, it looks like to continue through to the finals you need at least 50% MIT students on your team. Should be fun anyway.
No, at least 50% of your team must be students.
Re: Battlecode 2015 – AI Programming Competition
#5Looks fun! > What are the supported programming languages? Java and Scala. Oh. Nevermind. What's the most interesting version of a competition like this which doesn't place restrictions on implementation language?
The ICFP programming contest, usually.
Re: Battlecode 2015 – AI Programming Competition
#6While some of it is open to non-MIT students, it looks like to continue through to the finals you need at least 50% MIT students on your team. Should be fun anyway.
You can also compete for the top of the scrimmage rankings, and we are considering adding an Open tournament again to allow all teams compete for fame and glory.
Re: Battlecode 2015 – AI Programming Competition
#7Looks fun! > What are the supported programming languages? Java and Scala. Oh. Nevermind. What's the most interesting version of a competition like this which doesn't place restrictions on implementation language?
We're not happy about the restriction either, and hopefully we'll run a Battlecode that doesn't have a programming language restriction, but we haven't found a way to deal with limited instruction count execution that we are happy with that is machine independent, and counting Java bytecode has worked for us so far.
If there are other JVM languages people want supported, we'd be happy to take pull requests on Github once we make the new gameplay public tomorrow.
Re: Battlecode 2015 – AI Programming Competition
#8Looks fun! > What are the supported programming languages? Java and Scala. Oh. Nevermind. What's the most interesting version of a competition like this which doesn't place restrictions on implementation language?
We're not happy about the restriction either, and hopefully we'll run a Battlecode that doesn't have a programming language restriction, but we haven't found a way to deal with limited instruction count execution that we are happy with that is machine independent, and counting Java bytecode has worked for us so far. If there are other JVM languages people want supported, we'd be happy to take pull requests on Github…
How about clojure and jruby? Adding these will be pretty awesome.
Re: Battlecode 2015 – AI Programming Competition
#9Looks fun! > What are the supported programming languages? Java and Scala. Oh. Nevermind. What's the most interesting version of a competition like this which doesn't place restrictions on implementation language?
We're not happy about the restriction either, and hopefully we'll run a Battlecode that doesn't have a programming language restriction, but we haven't found a way to deal with limited instruction count execution that we are happy with that is machine independent, and counting Java bytecode has worked for us so far. If there are other JVM languages people want supported, we'd be happy to take pull requests on Github…
Jython could be interesting too.
Re: Battlecode 2015 – AI Programming Competition
#10This looks awesome. Are the winning bots' source available after the tournament is concluded?