Code Wars: Competitive Programming
- When?
- Wednesday 9 September 2009, 16:00 to 18:00
- Where?
- LT F, University of Surrey
- Open to:
- Public
- Speaker:
- Dr James Heather
- Admission price:
- £5.00
- Tickets:
- Tickets are available from the University Box Office: T: 01483 686876, E: boxoffice@surrey.ac.uk
How good are you at Connect 4? Could you explain your strategy to someone else? Could you code it up as a computer program? The Arena is a web-based system for hosting strategy game tournaments, but where the matches are played by the computer programs people submit to the system. Join us and learn how to create and submit your own program, and take on the rest of the world at Connect 4!
An introduction to The Arena, a system for hosting games programming competitions. Find out how to use the system to create a Four-In-A-Row player, and watch it play games against other people's submissions! If you have your own laptop, you can bring it with you, and create your own player module. You will need Eclipse, and a working Java environment.