interprogram communication

[Ajinkya]

I am doing a project for college event.
It is named AI WARS.
Basic idea is that contestants will be given a signature of a function
for input to their program.

There will be a game bet 2 contestants. Each has to write an algorithm
for his next move.
The game is Othello/Reversi .

So I have writen the game engine part and we have decided the program
signature to be provideed to the contestants.

My problem is how do I connect the 3 programs
1. The Game Engine
2. Contestant 1 Program
3. Contestant 2 Program

I want a way in which my game engine will give control to the
contestant's programs one at a time alternately for the next moves of
each player alternately.

Can anyone suggest me something to carry out the inter program
communication ?

[Joachim Schmitz]

"Ajinkya" <ka*********@gmail.comschrieb im Newsbeitrag
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>I am doing a project for college event.
It is named AI WARS.
Basic idea is that contestants will be given a signature of a function
for input to their program.

There will be a game bet 2 contestants. Each has to write an algorithm
for his next move.
The game is Othello/Reversi .

So I have writen the game engine part and we have decided the program
signature to be provideed to the contestants.

My problem is how do I connect the 3 programs
1. The Game Engine
2. Contestant 1 Program
3. Contestant 2 Program

I want a way in which my game engine will give control to the
contestant's programs one at a time alternately for the next moves of
each player alternately.

Can anyone suggest me something to carry out the inter program
communication ?

Have a look at
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inter-p..._communication

Bye, Jojo

[user923005]

On Aug 28, 8:59 am, Ajinkya <[e-mail]:

I am doing a project for college event.
It is named AI WARS.
Basic idea is that contestants will be given a signature of a function
for input to their program.

There will be a game bet 2 contestants. Each has to write an algorithm
for his next move.
The game is Othello/Reversi .

So I have writen the game engine part and we have decided the program
signature to be provideed to the contestants.

My problem is how do I connect the 3 programs
1. The Game Engine
2. Contestant 1 Program
3. Contestant 2 Program

I want a way in which my game engine will give control to the
contestant's programs one at a time alternately for the next moves of
each player alternately.

Can anyone suggest me something to carry out the inter program
communication ?

http://sourceforge.net/projects/netothello/

[Chris Thomasson]

"Ajinkya" <ka*********@gmail.comwrote in message
news:11**********************@x35g2000prf.googlegr oups.com...

>I am doing a project for college event.
It is named AI WARS.
Basic idea is that contestants will be given a signature of a function
for input to their program.

[...]

Some quick info:

http://groups.google.com/group/comp....86197f1882dc56

http://groups.google.com/group/comp....45e6fe981788e7

Read both of those and follow all links...

[Nick Keighley]

On 28 Aug, 16:59, Ajinkya <[e-mail]:

I am doing a project for college event.
It is named AI WARS.
Basic idea is that contestants will be given a signature of a function
for input to their program.

There will be a game bet 2 contestants. Each has to write an algorithm
for his next move.
The game is Othello/Reversi .

So I have writen the game engine part and we have decided the program
signature to be provideed to the contestants.

My problem is how do I connect the 3 programs
1. The Game Engine
2. Contestant 1 Program
3. Contestant 2 Program

I want a way in which my game engine will give control to the
contestant's programs one at a time alternately for the next moves of
each player alternately.

Can anyone suggest me something to carry out the inter program
communication ?

[Nick Keighley]

On 28 Aug, 16:59, Ajinkya <[e-mail]:

I am doing a project for college event.
It is named AI WARS.
Basic idea is that contestants will be given a signature of a function
for input to their program.

There will be a game bet 2 contestants. Each has to write an algorithm
for his next move.
The game is Othello/Reversi .

So I have writen the game engine part and we have decided the program
signature to be provideed to the contestants.

My problem is how do I connect the 3 programs
1. The Game Engine
2. Contestant 1 Program
3. Contestant 2 Program

I want a way in which my game engine will give control to the
contestant's programs one at a time alternately for the next moves of
each player alternately.

Can anyone suggest me something to carry out the inter program
communication ?

have you considered not making them standalone programs?
Just link the functions into a driver program.
No threads, no IPC. Everyone has to give their
function a unique name (eg. preceed the name with their
initials).
int main (void)
{
Board boad; /* some complex structure */

while (!finished (&board))
{
player1_move (&board);
player2_move (&board);
draw (&board);
}
}

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Nick Keighley

[Ajinkya]

On Aug 29, 2:11 am, Nick Keighley <[e-mail]>
wrote:

On 28 Aug, 16:59, Ajinkya <[e-mail]:

I am doing a project for college event.
It is named AI WARS.
Basic idea is that contestants will be given a signature of a function
for input to their program.

There will be a game bet 2 contestants. Each has to write an algorithm
for his next move.
The game is Othello/Reversi .

So I have writen the game engine part and we have decided the program
signature to be provideed to the contestants.

My problem is how do I connect the 3 programs
1. The Game Engine
2. Contestant 1 Program
3. Contestant 2 Program

I want a way in which my game engine will give control to the
contestant's programs one at a time alternately for the next moves of
each player alternately.

Can anyone suggest me something to carry out the inter program
communication ?

have you considered not making them standalone programs?
Just link the functions into a driver program.
No threads, no IPC. Everyone has to give their
function a unique name (eg. preceed the name with their
initials).

int main (void)
{
Board boad; /* some complex structure */

while (!finished (&board))
{
player1_move (&board);
player2_move (&board);
draw (&board);
}

}

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Nick Keighley- Hide quoted text -

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I thought about this option too!
But we want to give a downloadable game engine for participants to
practice and we cannot give them the code of our engine there.
Is there any other option where I can give a downloadable .exe file
and then the user can link his program and the game engine ?

Thanks in advance,

Regards,
Ajinkya