The Battlecode Programming Competition

Screen showing soldiers from competing sides, red and blue, fighting.

Battlecode teams compete against one another by programming a variety of tactics into their players on the field. (Image courtesy of the Battlecode developers. Used with permission.)

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MIT Course Number

6.370

As Taught In

January IAP 2013

Level

Undergraduate / Graduate

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Course Description

Course Features

Course Description

This course is conducted as an artificial intelligence programming contest in Java. Students work in teams to program virtual robots to play Battlecode, a real-time strategy game. Optional lectures are provided on topics and programming practices relevant to the game, and students learn and improve their programming skills experientially. The competition culminates in a live Battlecode tournament.

This course is offered during the Independent Activities Period (IAP), which is a special 4-week term at MIT that runs from the first week of January until the end of the month.

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Maxwell Mann. 6.370 The Battlecode Programming Competition. January IAP 2013. Massachusetts Institute of Technology: MIT OpenCourseWare, https://ocw.mit.edu. License: Creative Commons BY-NC-SA.


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