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
