I built my first serverless robot and won $1000

When my daughter was in grade 5, I volunteered to teach programming for an afternoon while the teacher could do one-on-ones.<p>I took Robocode[1], made a basic Robot class that the kids could easily extend, and then taught them just enough logic and syntax so they could have their robots battle their classmates&#x27;.<p>It was a huge success. We had to close the door to the classroom because the kids were so loud, cheering their robots on.<p>Whenever a kid was called by the teacher to do their one-on-one, they protested &quot;one more minute, I need to improve my robot!&quot;<p>In September, my daughter starts university in software engineering; mission accomplished! ;)<p>[1] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;robocode.sourceforge.io&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;robocode.sourceforge.io&#x2F;</a>

RobotWar lives![1] Yay!<p>I won a RobotWars competition in 1984. I got a T-Shirt. Not $1000. :-&#x2F;<p>Later I discovered CoreWar [2] and enjoyed that until I learned all of the main classes of algorithms&#x2F;bots had been identified.<p>Never heard of Faas Wars but now I&#x27;m excited to see what it is like. These programming-based games are way more fun, IMHO, than hackathons.<p>[1] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;RobotWar" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;RobotWar</a><p>[2] <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;corewars.org&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;corewars.org&#x2F;</a>

I assumed it was a real robot with onboard processing and was going to make a joke about it using FaaS

In case anyone on here is interested, I made a simple, in-browser JavaScript robot battle programming game like this (human vs. CPU only) that embeds VS Code&#x27;s editor: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;jaredkrinke.itch.io&#x2F;cyber-coliseum" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;jaredkrinke.itch.io&#x2F;cyber-coliseum</a><p>Don&#x27;t expect too much -- I just made this for fun :)

I watched the youtube videos of all the battles so far and I was really surprised to see that a very simple strategy (in retrospect) was sufficient to win the competitions.<p>I&#x27;ve been waiting to see if someone implements an AI bot that&#x27;s trained on all the bots in the competition but maybe you just don&#x27;t need to.

Anyone remember Java Tanks?

That&#x27;s so cool! Great job.

Very cool, well done.

What does serverless mean in this context?