Matthias Felleisen wrote at 11/24/2011 10:12 AM:
Is the OO style required?
I believe that OO style is *not* required, per vague statements and phrasing in "https://github.com/aichallenge/aichallenge/wiki/Ants-Starter-Pack-Guide";.
Looks like the hardest part of writing the starter kit is that the above page and "https://github.com/aichallenge/aichallenge/wiki/Ant-bot-input-output"; are very poor as specification. I suspect that the organizers' source code could be examined to answer key questions that the documentation does not (e.g., whether a cell in the grid representation they require can ever have more than one of {water, food, live ant, dead ant, hill}).
(This is the point at which I switched from thinking "I'll just bang out a Racket library in an hour, and it will be fun," to "This would be a good little software archeology exercise for a student, teaching them ways that poor specification can waste time.")
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