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.mee tup.com/ London-D- Programmers/ events/ 220610394/ >> > > > > >> > > > > thanks >> > > > > >> > > > > --Kingsley Here are the details - spread the word: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. Thanks for all who came to the D meetup. The champion tank ofthe evening goes to runaway.d by Justin & Priya which defeatedall challengers swiftly and in style :)Looking forward to the next meetup. >> > >> > Any videos of the fights? (Or were they all robot fights?) On Tuesday, 24 March 2015 at 23:32:38 UTC, Kingsley wrote: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. >> The activity was captured by the good folk of Skills Matter.It is worth noting the name of the winning "tank" exemplified it'sstrategy. It can be characterized by a quote from Monty Python and theHoly Grail: run away, run away.Whilst there, I didn't get around to writing a tank strategy, I spenttoo long looking at, and analysing, Kingsley's little framework – ohand chatting with Laeeth about D, Go, computational finance, etc.Kingsley's code is (mostly) great; hopefully I and others can helpevolve this via pull requests, to be something we can put before CASand others for inclusion in Key Stage 3 and 4 educational materials. Thiswould be a great way of getting young people interested in native codeafter 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 25 Mar 2015 12:15, "Russel Winder via Digitalmars-d-announce" https:// skillsma tter.com/ skillscasts/ 6287-d- robot-tank- battle- tournament the fun starts at 16:48