Re: Robocode competition at work

It's work colleagues, right? I would just state the rules and then apply trust.

/PEZ

On 2 apr 2012, at 17:24, Jean Felipe Felsky wrote:

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> Hello,
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> I did this to my students and they had some weeks to develop, so my problem was even bigger! What I did was to not do a robocode competition, but a virtual combat competition. I think there is a link in the robocode page somewhere to that... It is the robocode with some changes. They have included obstacles and flags and use a team of robots (although, this already exists in robocode, right?). In virtual combat you can win by either killing all enemy robots or by capturing the flag. You can disregard the capture the flag part and then you have robocode with obstacles... and the obstacles alone are a big problem to every algorithms out there...
> There was a single competition of virtual combat so far (as I know of) and there is none (or just a few) code available... well, everything that exists for robocode can be used in virtual combat, but not directly. I spent days trying to adapt wave surfing to consider the obstacles and they are not working fine yet.
> The experience worked fine for me, no one used a robot that already existed, everyone learned a lot and it was a fun experience...
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> But, anyway in 4 hours I don't think they can learn exactly what a robot does.. so, you can also ask questions to find out who really created the robot or just copied the code... or you can also just limit known methods, like anti gravity or wave surfing... I don't think anyone would come up with the idea of such algorithms in just 4 hours...
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> In any case, let us know how it goes!
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> Regards,
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> Jean 
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> On Sun, Apr 1, 2012 at 9:52 PM, Mauricio Noda <[email protected]> wrote:
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> Changing the settings of the battles make it a bit harder to simply copy-and-paste code from other robots. Since many bots have constants like battlefield size and number of opponents hardcoded. But not all of them, and it is still possible to adapt the code inside the 4hs.
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> Maybe enforce a codesize limit? 4hrs is not much time to write a decent MegaBot anyway. The amount of bots to copy-and-paste code from drastically diminishes with a limited codesize. Wave Surfing doesn't fit in the smaller codesize categories. And if any bot becomes too similar with LittleBlackBook or Caligula, well...
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> To: [email protected]
> From: [email protected]
> Date: Sun, 1 Apr 2012 20:27:15 +0000
> Subject: [Robocode] Re: Robocode competition at work
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> Hi
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> --- In [email protected], "flemmingnlarsen" <flemming.n.larsen@...> wrote:
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> > 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
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> Thanks! This is a great idea that I didn't think of myself :) 
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> > But you might require that the computer is not on the Internet
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> I've thought of this. I'm not sure what the best way of enforcing this is though. There will be wireless internet in the room we'll be in. And everyone has smartphones they can teather to wirelessly... Any ideas here?
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> Any other ideas anyone?
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> //Tobbe
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