Hi,

The second London D Programmers Meetup is now officially scheduled for Tuesday 24th March. As usual it's sponsored by Skills Matter and will be at their awesome training facility.

This meetup will be all about an awesome robot battle tournament. Come along and bring your laptop and be prepared to build a tank robot that can destroy the opposition in our custom made 2D battle arena. I've used the very excellent DSFML library for the graphics so it's looks nice :)

If we come up with a super tank we may start challenging other D meetup groups to a robot tank battle royale extravaganza!! So watch out!!!

Here are the details - spread the word:

http://www.meetup.com/London-D-Programmers/events/220610394/

thanks

--Kingsley

Just a reminder - this is happening next Tuesday - please come along if you are in London and fancy a bit of D programming fun.

On Thursday, 26 February 2015 at 15:56:13 UTC, Kingsley wrote:
> Hi,
>
> The second London D Programmers Meetup is now officially scheduled for Tuesday 24th March. As usual it's sponsored by Skills Matter and will be at their awesome training facility.
>
> This meetup will be all about an awesome robot battle tournament. Come along and bring your laptop and be prepared to build a tank robot that can destroy the opposition in our custom made 2D battle arena. I've used the very excellent DSFML library for the graphics so it's looks nice :)
>
> If we come up with a super tank we may start challenging other D meetup groups to a robot tank battle royale extravaganza!! So watch out!!!
>
> Here are the details - spread the word:
>
> http://www.meetup.com/London-D-Programmers/events/220610394/
>
> thanks
>
> --Kingsley

>> Here are the details - spread the word:
>>
>> http://www.meetup.com/London-D-Programmers/events/220610394/
>>
>> thanks
>>
>> --Kingsley

Thanks for all who came to the D meetup. The champion tank of the evening goes to runaway.d by Justin & Priya which defeated all challengers swiftly and in style :)

Looking forward to the next meetup.

On Tuesday, 24 March 2015 at 23:32:38 UTC, Kingsley wrote:
>>> Here are the details - spread the word:
>>>
>>> http://www.meetup.com/London-D-Programmers/events/220610394/
>>>
>>> thanks
>>>
>>> --Kingsley
>
> Thanks for all who came to the D meetup. The champion tank of the evening goes to runaway.d by Justin & Priya which defeated all challengers swiftly and in style :)
>
> Looking forward to the next meetup.

Any videos of the fights? (Or were they all robot fights?)

On Wed, 2015-03-25 at 11:25 +0000, wobbles via Digitalmars-d-announce wrote:
> On Tuesday, 24 March 2015 at 23:32:38 UTC, Kingsley wrote:
> > > > Here are the details - spread the word:
> > > > 
> > > > http://www.meetup.com/London-D-Programmers/events/220610394/
> > > > 
> > > > thanks
> > > > 
> > > > --Kingsley
> > 
> > Thanks for all who came to the D meetup. The champion tank of the evening goes to runaway.d by Justin & Priya which defeated all challengers swiftly and in style :)
> > 
> > Looking forward to the next meetup.
> 
> Any videos of the fights? (Or were they all robot fights?)

The activity was captured by the good folk of Skills Matter.

It is worth noting the name of the winning "tank" exemplified it's strategy. It can be characterized by a quote from Monty Python and the Holy Grail:  run away, run away.

Whilst there, I didn't get around to writing a tank strategy, I spent too long looking at, and analysing, Kingsley's little framework – oh and chatting with Laeeth about D, Go, computational finance, etc.

Kingsley's code is (mostly) great; hopefully I and others can help evolve this via pull requests, to be something we can put before CAS and others for inclusion in Key Stage 3 and 4 educational materials. <Long explanation of new UK computing education system elided.> This would be a great way of getting young people interested in native code after Scratch and Python. D and Java would be a good combination.

-- 
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On 25 Mar 2015 12:15, "Russel Winder via Digitalmars-d-announce" < digitalmars-d-announce@puremagic.com> wrote:
>
> On Wed, 2015-03-25 at 11:25 +0000, wobbles via Digitalmars-d-announce
wrote:
> > On Tuesday, 24 March 2015 at 23:32:38 UTC, Kingsley wrote:
> > > > > Here are the details - spread the word:
> > > > >
> > > > > http://www.meetup.com/London-D-Programmers/events/220610394/
> > > > >
> > > > > thanks
> > > > >
> > > > > --Kingsley
> > >
> > > Thanks for all who came to the D meetup. The champion tank of the evening goes to runaway.d by Justin & Priya which defeated all challengers swiftly and in style :)
> > >
> > > Looking forward to the next meetup.
> >
> > Any videos of the fights? (Or were they all robot fights?)
>
> The activity was captured by the good folk of Skills Matter.
>
> It is worth noting the name of the winning "tank" exemplified it's strategy. It can be characterized by a quote from Monty Python and the Holy Grail:  run away, run away.
>
> Whilst there, I didn't get around to writing a tank strategy, I spent too long looking at, and analysing, Kingsley's little framework – oh and chatting with Laeeth about D, Go, computational finance, etc.
>
> Kingsley's code is (mostly) great; hopefully I and others can help evolve this via pull requests, to be something we can put before CAS and others for inclusion in Key Stage 3 and 4 educational materials. <Long explanation of new UK computing education system elided.> This would be a great way of getting young people interested in native code after Scratch and Python. D and Java would be a good combination.
>

Great stuff. I would have tried to come up, but with moving home and all... Vacated the flat this morning. :-o

Iain

On Wednesday, 25 March 2015 at 13:21:21 UTC, Iain Buclaw wrote:
> On 25 Mar 2015 12:15, "Russel Winder via Digitalmars-d-announce" <
> digitalmars-d-announce@puremagic.com> wrote:
>>
>> On Wed, 2015-03-25 at 11:25 +0000, wobbles via Digitalmars-d-announce
> wrote:
>> > On Tuesday, 24 March 2015 at 23:32:38 UTC, Kingsley wrote:
>> > > > > Here are the details - spread the word:
>> > > > >
>> > > > > http://www.meetup.com/London-D-Programmers/events/220610394/
>> > > > >
>> > > > > thanks
>> > > > >
>> > > > > --Kingsley
>> > >
>> > > Thanks for all who came to the D meetup. The champion tank of
>> > > the evening goes to runaway.d by Justin & Priya which defeated
>> > > all challengers swiftly and in style :)
>> > >
>> > > Looking forward to the next meetup.
>> >
>> > Any videos of the fights? (Or were they all robot fights?)
>>
>> The activity was captured by the good folk of Skills Matter.
>>
>> It is worth noting the name of the winning "tank" exemplified it's
>> strategy. It can be characterized by a quote from Monty Python and the
>> Holy Grail:  run away, run away.
>>
>> Whilst there, I didn't get around to writing a tank strategy, I spent
>> too long looking at, and analysing, Kingsley's little framework – oh
>> and chatting with Laeeth about D, Go, computational finance, etc.
>>
>> Kingsley's code is (mostly) great; hopefully I and others can help
>> evolve this via pull requests, to be something we can put before CAS
>> and others for inclusion in Key Stage 3 and 4 educational materials.
>> <Long explanation of new UK computing education system elided.> This
>> would be a great way of getting young people interested in native code
>> after Scratch and Python. D and Java would be a good combination.
>>
>
> Great stuff. I would have tried to come up, but with moving home and all...
> Vacated the flat this morning. :-o
>
> Iain

Here is the video:
https://skillsmatter.com/skillscasts/6287-d-robot-tank-battle-tournament

the fun starts at 16:48