<br><br><div><span class="gmail_quote">On 27/06/06, <b class="gmail_sendername">Daniel Ajoy</b> <<a href="mailto:da.ajoy@gmail.com" target="_blank" onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)">da.ajoy@gmail.com
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<br>PCRobots is a programming game written by P. D. Smith. It's sort<br>of a tank game, the tanks have to fight each other. But you can't<br>control your tank: It is controlled by a programm you have to write!<br>The best program wins.
</blockquote><div><br>Hello,<br><br>I never tried it (yet) but Java people seem to have taken this idea too:<br><br>" Is it possible to learn inheritance, polymorphism, event handling, and
inner classes, all while dodging bullets and executing precision attack
maneuvers? A surprisingly addictive teaching-tool-turned-game-craze
called Robocode is about to make this a reality for Java developers
worldwide. Follow along as Sing Li disarms Robocode and starts you on
your way to building your own customized lean, mean, fighting machine. "<br><br><a href="http://www-128.ibm.com/developerworks/java/library/j-robocode/index.html" target="_blank" onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)">
http://www-128.ibm.com/developerworks/java/library/j-robocode/index.html
</a><br><a href="http://robocode.sourceforge.net/" target="_blank" onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)">http://robocode.sourceforge.net/</a><br> <br>francois<br></div><br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
PCRobots is very easy to handle: You can use most (DOS) compilers<br>to create your robots. Robots can build teams, different maps (with<br>obstacles) can be used, PCRobots has a graphical display and even<br>some sound.
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<br>You can download the game from here:<br><br><a href="http://www.informatik.uni-frankfurt.de/%7Ehbecker/prg/pcrob141.zip" target="_blank" onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)">http://www.informatik.uni-frankfurt.de/~hbecker/prg/pcrob141.zip
</a><br><br>and read some of the details in the manual:
<br><br>PCROBOTS.DOC<br><br>a text file.<br><br>I did enjoy playing with it in 1998 when I taught a first year<br>programming course using PCRobots and Turbo C.<br><br>Daniel<br><br>------- End of forwarded message -------
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