Amazing Dojo

Andrew Cowper

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Jul 12, 2012, 9:17:11 AM7/12/12

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Fellow Clojurians -

As a follow up to Neill's exciting Battleships dojo - I've written a server that lets Clojure programs race each other around randomly generated mazes.

Participants will write maze solving functions to compete in the arena of death! *

Each entrant is a function which is called repeatedly with information about what it can see from its current position. And each time it returns its move.

Let me know if we want to use this at a future Dojo.

Andrew

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* No actual death involved.

Oliver Godby

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Jul 12, 2012, 9:19:52 AM7/12/12

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Is there any chance that you'd be prepared to share this with people in advance of a dojo..?

I'd love to take it to the weekly Dojo at the BBC...

Please?

Cheers,

Oli

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Andrew Cowper

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Jul 12, 2012, 9:32:27 AM7/12/12

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Sure - it still a bit rough around the edges, but I'll post the github link in a day or two when I've tidied it up...

Oliver Godby

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Jul 12, 2012, 9:33:37 AM7/12/12

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Thanks mon ami :-)

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Bruce Durling

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Jul 13, 2012, 2:51:56 PM7/13/12

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Andrew,

If you are ready for the dojo then let's go for it.

Cheers,
Bruce

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Neill Alexander

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Jul 13, 2012, 3:40:06 PM7/13/12

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This sounds like it could be fun. I'm looking forward to it. :-)

Jennifer Smith

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Jul 14, 2012, 7:36:33 AM7/14/12

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That sounds fantastic- I look forward to it at the dojo- will have to publish our results on the website!

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Andrew Cowper

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Jul 16, 2012, 4:23:16 AM7/16/12

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Yes - it will be ready for the 31st. I've still got a little bit of work to do on the server, but I can post the link here in advance as requested by Oliver - unless anyone thinks it should be kept under wraps until the dojo?

Andrew

Robert

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Jul 16, 2012, 4:29:00 AM7/16/12

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I think you just share the client callbacks (assuming it is structured like that) and their signatures here. That way people can begin to understand how it works and ask questions but since we'll need to explain the challenge on the night anyway we might as well try and keep it fresh; also eager beavers will start solving it rather than working with other people to solve it.

Of course if you want to share it privately with people like Oliver who want to run it that's different.

Bruce Durling

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Jul 16, 2012, 7:01:33 AM7/16/12

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Andrew,

On Mon, Jul 16, 2012 at 9:29 AM, Robert <shudd...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Of course if you want to share it privately with people like Oliver who want
> to run it that's different.

True. If Oliver wants to cheat, then that is on his conscience. ;-)

cheers,
Bruce
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Andrew Cowper

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Jul 27, 2012, 12:12:02 PM7/27/12

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Hi All -

The maze server is primed and ready to go. If we're still keen to use it on Tuesday, then I suggest everyone spends the weekend limbering up like a Wiggins.

Andrew

Bruce Durling

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Jul 27, 2012, 12:24:23 PM7/27/12

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Andrew,

Excellent news!

Is the code up so we can all look at it, marvel at your work and cheat? ;-)

I'm looking forward to it!

cheers,
Bruce

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Andrew Cowper

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Jul 28, 2012, 5:29:40 PM7/28/12

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I'm not sure how much marvelling there'll be - but it seems to work at least.

The code is here - https://github.com/bloat/maze-game

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Bruce Durling

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Andrew,

Thanks! Now to figure out what to do with it all. :-D

cheers,
Bruce

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Andrew Cowper

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Aug 1, 2012, 5:39:30 AM8/1/12

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Hi Everyone - Thanks a lot for coming to the Dojo last night - I'm very happy that everyone enjoyed playing the Maze Game. Here are the final results - archived for posterity. http://git.slothrop.net/maze-game/index.html

Andrew

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Bruce Durling

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Aug 1, 2012, 5:52:45 AM8/1/12

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Andrew,

It was a huge amount of fun and is going to lead to playing around with maze finding algorithms in between dojos for me. :-D

Thanks again for doing it!

And thanks again to Elise for MCing last night.

I hope everyone else had fun too.

I'm looking forward to seeing all the solutions and attempts in github.

cheers,

Bruce

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