2018assignment3 VS swarm

I have a little self-written version I use as an assignment for Scala students at UNE (Aus).

At the moment, using classic actors but it'll probably shift to typed actors next time around.

https://github.com/UNEcosc250/2018assignment3

I also put in a bit about "tankfighting with insults" a la Monkey Island, to try to give a little exercise in streams.

(Relatively safe to link because I'll be updating it next year anyway)

Some years ago, a colleague and I ran a software studio course at UQ where we used the original Robocode codebase as the starter project, and had teams adding action-replay, Call of Duty style killstreak rewards and all sorts of other odd features.

(Though the pain of the original Robocode Java codebase was there was a 1,000 line long class that was so central to everthing that by the time students were done with it, it was a 3,000 line class. Our hopes of "prime target for students to refactor" were thwarted by "turns out, students don't do that".)

Come join us at https://github.com/swarm-game/swarm/ ! We are very friendly and we have a bunch of small tasks suitable for beginners (see https://github.com/swarm-game/swarm/issues?q=is%3Aissue+is%3Aopen+label%3A%22C-Low+Hanging+Fruit%22) . No Slack or Discord but we do have an IRC channel and a Gather.town space (though it's not used very actively at the moment).

All the above listed projects are really great, worthy projects. But if you're looking for something a bit more frivolous, check out https://github.com/swarm-game/swarm/ .

https://github.com/swarm-game/swarm !

Check out Swarm if you like functional programming.

This is exactly what we do in swarm: https://github.com/swarm-game/swarm/blob/main/src/Swarm/TUI/List.hs If others are interested, we would be happy to collaborate to split this out into a separate library somehow.

Games that may fit are Screeps and Swarm (these are the two I know of, but there could be others in the same subgenre). The gameplay loop consists of you writing code to command your units who then go out to gather resources which you use to make better units and improve your base. Of course these types of games require you to do actual programming.

It's also great as a reference for PL implementors : https://github.com/swarm-game/swarm/blob/main/src/Swarm/Language/Typecheck.hs

Always happy to welcome contributors to https://github.com/byorgey/swarm (see CONTRIBUTING.md and issues tagged "low-hanging fruit" ). The needed level of expertise varies a lot from module to module, but there's a good deal that should be accessible to someone with a year of Haskell experience.