Take the Rock Paper Azure Challenge

The Rock Paper Azure Challenge gets underway today!  It’s a chance to prove your coding skills as bots you develop battle it out in a cloud-based game of “Rock, Paper, Scissors” (with added twists – dynamite and water balloons).

Though topping the leaderboard will earn you bragging rights, there are prizes for the weekly tournaments (run each Friday) as well.

How do you get started?

1. Get the (free) tools, game code, and trial Windows Azure account
2. Build your bot – the strategy is up to you (some helpful tips)
3. Test and deploy your bot
4. Enter your bot in the Challenge

There are weekly webcasts to help - “Getting Started” on Tuesdays, and “Tips and Tricks” on Fridays.

Details are on the Rock Paper Azure Challenge site.

Good luck!

-Chris

Comments

• Anonymous
  April 14, 2011
  Too bad it's impossible to compete if your language is F#. No F# runtime available in Microsoft's cloud computing environment (!), and if you use the --standalone compiler flag to embed the runtime, you're over the 100KB size limit.

• Anonymous
  April 30, 2011
  Hi Joel, Good news, you can now also use F# and VB!  My teammate Jim has an update - blogs.msdn.com/.../rockpaperazure-just-got-trilingual.aspx Best, Chris