Stephane Ducasse wrote:

> I'm not sure what is the goal of this project is but it seems that
> they try to teach Java using robots.
>
> http://robocode.alphaworks.ibm.com/home/home.html

A less martial version of this approach can be found at

http://www.csis.pace.edu/~bergin/karel/ecoop2000JBKarel.html

The two approaches are pretty similar but the latter is not concerned with enemies and shooting but with finding goals, collecting things, etc.

Cheers,

    Thomas

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