Re: Interest in Programming Competition?
 

Actually: http://www.chiefdelphi.com/forums/sh...+compe tition

Granted, you are the first person to actually do anything about it. It seems like a good idea and all but I really have my doubts.

1) Writing an autonomous simulator framework seems rather complicated

2) Everyone is already writing their autonomous for the REAL robot, why would they want to develop a second autonomous program?

3) Everyone seems to program in different languages. A lot of the older members program in C/C++ because that's what was taught at their high school. However, the Programming AP exam this year changed to java. So now all the younger members program in java. And then there will be the people who hate both :)

4) You have no corporate sponsor. All the current award competitions have big sponsors. This allows for judging by professionals and assistance by professionals. It's much cooler to have your work reviewed by Ted Boardman than team number whatever from down the street. Not to mention cool prizes in cases such as the autodesk awards.

5) Interest? I only see a handful of people actually interested in this by browsing through the forums. And 3/4 of those people are the ones that want to run on it. Most teams have only one programmer, so you guys are going to need to market yourselves heavily.

Best of luck. You've at least started working something, which is more than anyone has ever done :)

Re: Interest in Programming Competition?
 

Ok, I'll excuse myself from this thread. If you want to know why we should make such a thing, check the other thread. I know it will be hard, It will probably take a while, but we can do it.

And I think that your idea is a great starting pont, but it's hard to exhibit a great program without hardware to go with.

Re: Interest in Programming Competition?
 

Actually, even though I'm writing the framework in Java, competitors can still write their code in C++ using something called JNI - Java Native Interface. This allows my Java code to talk using OOP with C++ programs. Although I am proficient in C/C++ and Java, I do not know much about JNI, so if you want to write C++ code for the competition, do some research on JNI at http://java.sun.com/ . For the people who hate both - learn a "real" language, j/k.

Re: Interest in Programming Competition?
 

I had never heared of JNI. I'll have to check it out. Great job organizing this! :)

Re: Interest in Programming Competition?
 

v0.02 of the SDK had been released:

http://nrg.chaosnet.org/coder/src

You can now download it in Zip format! [EDIT]The Zip format download PHP script is not working. Just use this link http://nrg.chaosnet.org/coder/src/docs [/edit]

If someone would examine the Simulation and Sensor sub-class documentation and tell me if they want more sensors, that would be great! If there's anything else needs to be added, tell me! I'm only working on the structure, not the implementation.

Re: Interest in Programming Competition?
 

Will the line/IR sensors return an analog value? Looks good.

Re: Interest in Programming Competition?
 

will this competition include the platforms. And if so, can you include tilt sensors in the functions. they could just return a boolean with true being tilted and false being level. Great job on the code.

Re: Interest in Programming Competition?
 

Line sensors, neither do IR sensors don't need to be analog.

Distance sensors do need to be analog, and they are. By default all sensors can return "int" values.

The SetSetting methods on the sensor allows you to customize the sensor like in real life.

As in:
LineSensor - setting is 0 for on when bright, or 1 for on when dark
IRSensor - setting is the 0 to 255 (mapping to 0 to 360 degrees) angle that the sensor faces (like a servo that rotates the sensor)