Student Rumble
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My engineering students are just now starting with Robocode, and we're running a rumble with student bots and sample bots. Round one will be basic Robots. AdvancedRobots will be later on in the semester. :)
Very cool! How do you address the issue of browsing other people's bots online, or do you? And what level are the students at?
All bots will be open source, and I'll be reading the code of each student's bot to check for plagiarism.
The students are at a complete ground level right now. I'm starting with the absolute basics (turnRight(90) makes your bot turn right 90 degrees.. etc) Then I'm teaching actual Java/programming fundamentals from there.
This all builds to them making their own LEGO/Tetrix robots later in the year, which will be in a C variant. I figure learning basic Java syntax as well as practical programming will serve them well for that.
I'm excited!
On a personal Robocode note, I've been thinking about maybe doing a new bot using the best parts of deBroglie's guts. A full on clean-up job sounds so tiring.. and it'd be nice to have a bot cleanly coded from the start. Maybe even with every method properly documented! Ahhh. Maybe it's a pipe-dream.
