Hi tomas 

What I do not like with the approach of Bergin is that if you carefully read
what they propose you end up with one robot per class.
But this is not OO. There is no composition. Look at the inheritance
hierarchy in the middle of the lessons figure 6-4. I have the impression
that half of OO is missing.

Stef 


on 10/9/01 3:10 pm, Thomas Kuehne at kuehne at informatik.uni-kl.de wrote:

> 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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