[Kde-games-devel] GSOC: New AI for Ksirk

[Gaël (aka Kleag)]

Hi Xavi,

There is already at least 3 students that have step up for this project. So, 
there is competition :-) But your skills seems good.

Well, as I said I cannot be a mentor, and I don't know well how works Gsoc and 
how you, and the other students, can find a mentor.

Do you need explanations about the implementation right now ? I'll try to 
write some things down this week-end...

I will also send a mail to this list and to kde-devel to ask for possible 
mentors for you and the other candidates.


Regards,

Gaël

On Wednesday 24 March 2010 12:11:35 Xavi Valls wrote:
> Hello, my name is Xavi Valls, and I am a student from Castelló de la Plana,
> Spain. I would like to take part on the next Google Summer for Code, and
> the project "New AI for Ksirk" from KDE has caught my eye. However, it
> looks like it has no mentor yet, so I am concerned about this project's
> priority.
> 
> I am currently on my 4th year of Superior Computing Engineering at Jaume I
> University in Castelló de la Plana (Spain), which is equivalent to a
> masters' programme first year in the new European Union's framework plan
> for Higher education (colloquially known as the Bologna Plan).
> I have been programming using C++ for the past four years using
> object-oriented programming and learning datastructures, and I am looking
> forward  to learning Qt, which I started working with last year, but had to
> quit due to lack of time.
> 
> I am taking Artificial Intelligence courses at University, and I am really
> enjoying it although it seems to be an applied-to-games Algorithmics (which
> is a subject I loved last year). I am looking forward to learning more
> about it throughout the Summer :)
> 
> Ksirk looks like a free computer implementation of Risk, one of the games I
> played the most during my childhood. I still play it from time to time,
> meeting with old friends in a house by the beach. I really like that game.
> 
> :)
> 
> I am going to look for the code right now, but if you have some indications
> about the datastructures that have been used, search algorithms,
> heuristics... any information would be welcome. :D
> 
> I also tried to contact with kleag at free.fr, but time is running out and he
> couldn't reply me in the past twenty-four hours.
> 
> Do you think I stand any chance? I think I would really enjoy Google Summer
> for Code and I would most definitely make the most out of it.
> 
> Thank you for your kind attention,
> 
> Xavi Valls.

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