Video game bots as a theme for student software competitions

Matthew Fahrbach; Jerzy W. Jaromczyk; Roy David Mobley; Neil Moore

doi:10.1109/CGames.2014.6934158

Video game bots as a theme for student software competitions

Matthew Fahrbach, Jerzy W. Jaromczyk, Roy David Mobley, Neil Moore

Computer Science

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Software and programming competitions are attractive and educationally powerful ways to engage excelling students. They assume different formats depending on the purpose, level of preparation and background of participants. We describe a new type of student software competition organized for the 2014 IEEE SoutheastCon conference. We designed a task related to video game bots - a novel format for this contest event running in conjunction with the annual IEEE Region 3 Student and Technical conference. In addition to testing abilities and programming skills in solving algorithmic problems in a limited time, this new format emphasizes the importance of engineering aspects of the software development process, and provides a model that can be reproduced for other competitions as well as used in the classroom.

Idioma original	English
Título de la publicación alojada	Proceedings of CGAMES 2014 USA - 19th International Conference on Computer Games
Subtítulo de la publicación alojada	AI, Animation, Mobile, Interactive Multimedia, Educational and Serious Games
Editores	Qasim Mehdi, Adel Elmaghraby, Ian M. Marshall, Adrian Lauf, Jerzy W. Jaromczyk, Rammohan Ragade, Begona Garcia Zapirain, Dar-Jen Chang, Julia Chariker, Mostafa El-Said, Roman Yampolskiy
Páginas	134-137
Número de páginas	4
ISBN (versión digital)	9781479958535
DOI	https://doi.org/10.1109/CGames.2014.6934158
Estado	Published - oct 22 2014
Evento	19th International Conference on Computer Games, CGAMES 2014 - Louisville, United States Duración: jul 28 2014 → jul 30 2014

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Nombre	Proceedings of CGAMES 2014 USA - 19th International Conference on Computer Games: AI, Animation, Mobile, Interactive Multimedia, Educational and Serious Games

Conference

Conference	19th International Conference on Computer Games, CGAMES 2014
País/Territorio	United States
Ciudad	Louisville
Período	7/28/14 → 7/30/14

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© 2014 IEEE.

ASJC Scopus subject areas

Computer Graphics and Computer-Aided Design
Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
Human-Computer Interaction

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Fahrbach, M., Jaromczyk, J. W., David Mobley, R., & Moore, N. (2014). Video game bots as a theme for student software competitions. En Q. Mehdi, A. Elmaghraby, I. M. Marshall, A. Lauf, J. W. Jaromczyk, R. Ragade, B. G. Zapirain, D.-J. Chang, J. Chariker, M. El-Said, & R. Yampolskiy (Eds.), Proceedings of CGAMES 2014 USA - 19th International Conference on Computer Games: AI, Animation, Mobile, Interactive Multimedia, Educational and Serious Games (pp. 134-137). Artículo 6934158 (Proceedings of CGAMES 2014 USA - 19th International Conference on Computer Games: AI, Animation, Mobile, Interactive Multimedia, Educational and Serious Games). https://doi.org/10.1109/CGames.2014.6934158

Fahrbach, Matthew ; Jaromczyk, Jerzy W. ; David Mobley, Roy et al. / Video game bots as a theme for student software competitions. Proceedings of CGAMES 2014 USA - 19th International Conference on Computer Games: AI, Animation, Mobile, Interactive Multimedia, Educational and Serious Games. editor / Qasim Mehdi ; Adel Elmaghraby ; Ian M. Marshall ; Adrian Lauf ; Jerzy W. Jaromczyk ; Rammohan Ragade ; Begona Garcia Zapirain ; Dar-Jen Chang ; Julia Chariker ; Mostafa El-Said ; Roman Yampolskiy. 2014. pp. 134-137 (Proceedings of CGAMES 2014 USA - 19th International Conference on Computer Games: AI, Animation, Mobile, Interactive Multimedia, Educational and Serious Games).

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Fahrbach, M, Jaromczyk, JW, David Mobley, R & Moore, N 2014, Video game bots as a theme for student software competitions. En Q Mehdi, A Elmaghraby, IM Marshall, A Lauf, JW Jaromczyk, R Ragade, BG Zapirain, D-J Chang, J Chariker, M El-Said & R Yampolskiy (eds.), Proceedings of CGAMES 2014 USA - 19th International Conference on Computer Games: AI, Animation, Mobile, Interactive Multimedia, Educational and Serious Games., 6934158, Proceedings of CGAMES 2014 USA - 19th International Conference on Computer Games: AI, Animation, Mobile, Interactive Multimedia, Educational and Serious Games, pp. 134-137, 19th International Conference on Computer Games, CGAMES 2014, Louisville, United States, 7/28/14. https://doi.org/10.1109/CGames.2014.6934158

Video game bots as a theme for student software competitions. / Fahrbach, Matthew; Jaromczyk, Jerzy W.; David Mobley, Roy et al.
Proceedings of CGAMES 2014 USA - 19th International Conference on Computer Games: AI, Animation, Mobile, Interactive Multimedia, Educational and Serious Games. ed. / Qasim Mehdi; Adel Elmaghraby; Ian M. Marshall; Adrian Lauf; Jerzy W. Jaromczyk; Rammohan Ragade; Begona Garcia Zapirain; Dar-Jen Chang; Julia Chariker; Mostafa El-Said; Roman Yampolskiy. 2014. p. 134-137 6934158 (Proceedings of CGAMES 2014 USA - 19th International Conference on Computer Games: AI, Animation, Mobile, Interactive Multimedia, Educational and Serious Games).

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Fahrbach M, Jaromczyk JW, David Mobley R, Moore N. Video game bots as a theme for student software competitions. En Mehdi Q, Elmaghraby A, Marshall IM, Lauf A, Jaromczyk JW, Ragade R, Zapirain BG, Chang DJ, Chariker J, El-Said M, Yampolskiy R, editores, Proceedings of CGAMES 2014 USA - 19th International Conference on Computer Games: AI, Animation, Mobile, Interactive Multimedia, Educational and Serious Games. 2014. p. 134-137. 6934158. (Proceedings of CGAMES 2014 USA - 19th International Conference on Computer Games: AI, Animation, Mobile, Interactive Multimedia, Educational and Serious Games). doi: 10.1109/CGames.2014.6934158

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