Re: Robocode competition at work

Well, you could put up a requirement that each hour, each person would need to safe his/her source file(s) as prove that he/she did the code, like it is done with some drawing/artist competitions, where the artist must provide the sketches and picture showing the progress of the painting/drawing. He/she should also be able to explain the code, when the competition is over. However, I don't think that you'll be able to easily check if the code was stolen. But you might require that the computer is not on the Internet, as all the API (Javadoc), editor etc. is already provided in the distribution file for Robocode - even a compiler. But the computer must have the JDK preinstalled.

Regards,
- Flemming

--- In [email protected], "tobbelundberg" <tobbe@...> wrote:
>
> Hi
> 
> I'm planning a robocode competition at work. The idea is to give everyone 3-4h to code a robot from scratch, and then run 1v1 battles until there is a single winner. I don't think any of us have tried Robocode before, so it should be pretty fair for all of us.
> 
> One of my biggest concerns is how to stop everyone from just downloading the best robot there is off of the internet and use that in the competition.
> 
> I also don't want anyone to copy/paste the wave surfing code on the wiki.
> 
> Any ideas how to handle this? Am I even on the right track?
> 
> Thanks in advance
> //Tobbe
>



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