11Jul/08Off
ICFP contest 2008 kickoff
Okay, I've got the live cd image, the svn repo, the trac instance, and now the requirements. The goal is to navigate a Martian rover to the center of a rectangle. The immobile obstacles are the borders, boulders, and craters. Moving obstacles are Martians with 14 fingers worshipping a heartless pantheon of deities. The software to be written is the controller, which decides and guides the rover homeward.
My initial impressions:
- Simple socket i/o required
- It would be nice to have a UI for the board
- Need to detect collisions
- Need to deal with telemetry data
- Need to remember that boulders will obscure other items
- Five runs per trial, initialization sent once per trial.
- Need to build the package
- Need to pick a language
Big questions
- Rotational velocity: how to gauge this
- How to represent prior moves? Simply an array?
Very important: the FAQ
Entries have to be submitted by Monday at 3pm. BREAK!!
