F#unctional Londoners Meetup Group

Pacman Kata

Jan 26, 2012 · 6:30 PM
The Skills Matter eXchange

Pacman finds himself in a grid filled with monsters. Will he be able to eat all the dots on the board before the monsters eat him?

pacman is on a grid filled with dots
pacman eats dots
pacman stops on walls
ghosts follow pacman...

Lets start the new year with a hands-on coding Kata by implementing Pacman. Suitable for people new to F# who'd like to learn more and for more experienced F# developers looking to practice their skills.

See: http://codingdojo.org/cgi-bin/wiki.pl?KataPacMan

We'll start with a maze and some graphics running inside Visual Studio or the browser using http://tryfsharp.org and targeting WPF, Silverlight and HTML/JavaScript.

See: http://fssnip.net/9V

Please bring a laptop if you can, if not don't worry we'll work in teams.

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A former member

A little bit too unstructured for my liking. The Pacman idea is really good except that on closer examination, it is a little bit too complicated for a couple of hours hacking. It would definitely work as an ongoing project though as there is a lot of functionality to build.

Also, as an F# newbie, I would have benefited more from a structured coding demo rather than being left to get on with it - but I realise that this was a kata so not really intended to be that.

0 · January 27, 2012
Phillip T.

Hi Matthew, yes, please register on the Skills Matter site too, so that they can print out name badges for the event :) Cheers, Phil

0 · January 11, 2012
Matthew G.

Do we need to register on skills matter as well as here?

0 · January 10, 2012
A former member

The Skills Matter registration link is now live here: http://skillsmatter.com/podcast/scala/pacman-kata/js-3342

0 · January 9, 2012
Mathias B.

Visiting from California, looking forward to meeting with the F# community from the other side of the Atlantic! And to help Pacman survive against the ghosts of course.

0 · January 7, 2012