Ken & Mike on the MATLAB Desktop

November 6th, 2008

Army Ants Contest

It’s time for another bonus mid-week post. This time I’m announcing the new MATLAB Contest: Army Ants.

Army ants contest diagram

It’s a challenging scenario where you try to improve your colony while fighting off an ant colony controlled by other contest submitters. Our contests are a good time, and viewing the code of other contestants can really expand your MATLAB game.

If you do participate, let us know if any parts of the Desktop really helped with your submission.

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By Michael Katz

Mike is a developer on the MATLAB Desktop team. When not describing himself in the third person, biking, homebrewing, or rooting for the home team, he's busy trying to make the world a better place for programming.

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4 Responses to “Army Ants Contest”

  1. Quan Quach replied on November 12th, 2008 at 05:55 UTC :

    ARgh!! I’ve been waiting for this contest but it looks like I’m late to the game.

  2. Quan Quach replied on November 12th, 2008 at 05:55 UTC :

    When did you guys change your layout? I think I like the old one better :(

  3. Ken replied on November 12th, 2008 at 11:48 UTC :

    Hey Quan,

    We changed the style a couple weeks back in conjunction with an update to the look of MATLAB Central. I like the new look…what about it isn’t working for you?

    -Ken

  4. Mike replied on November 12th, 2008 at 12:55 UTC :

    Quan,

    You should sign up for contest-announce: “Don’t miss hearing about the next MATLAB Contest. Sign up for our MATLAB Contest mailing list. Send an e-mail to lists@mathworks.com with subscribe contest-announce in the body.”

    That way you won’t miss out next time.

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