Pop-Up Course: World Championships of Coding
Vuosi | Lukukausi | Päivämäärä | Periodi | Kieli | Vastuuhenkilö |
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2014 | kevät | 15.04-29.04. | 4-4 | Englanti | Hanna Mäenpää |
Information for international students
Yes, we are participating.
Register at ilmo.cs.helsinki.fi AND www.helloworldopen.com.
Schedule:
- Sign-up has started NOW.
- Sign-up ends April 22nd
- Coding starts April 15th
- Coding ends April 29th
- Qualifying rounds 6th-8th May
- Finals June 5th in Helsinki
Form a team of 1-3 persons and create an artificial intelligence (AI) for a simple real time racing game. Your AI will sit on the drivers seat and race against others on different virtual tracks. There will be a server that will send you track details and car positions and your job is to send the car control messages to the server.
You"ll communicate with a game server using JSON over TCP. Programming languages that are currently available for selection are C, C# / Mono, Clojure, CoffeeScript, Haskell, Java, JavaScript, Python, Ruby, Scala, Go.
Detailed rules of the competition
Important dates for the course
- First meeting: Monday 11th April at 11:00. Software Factory, BK113
- Hackathon 23th Wednesday. Doors open 10-16, gatherings at 12:00.
- Competition deadline 29th April at 13:00
- Wrap-up meeting has been cancelled. Final exercises will be emailed to participants.
To pass the course:
- Submit a valid competition entry, participate in the qualifying rounds.
- Attend the first meeting and wrap-up
- Write a report of your experience to the App Ideas -blog. One post per team.
Contact person: Hanna Mäenpää (hanna.maenpaa(ä)cs.helsinki.fi)
See also: https://twitter.com/HelloWorldOpen
#CSopen @ ircnet