Experience on Running a Small-Size Simulated Car Racing Tournament in an Introductory Programming Course

This paper reports short-term experience on running a small-size car racing tournament in “Programming C Language class” for freshmen. It was based on Computational Intelligence and Games (CIG) 2009 Car Racing Competition software and rules with small modifications. Five students were involved in this small competition and they built their own controllers during this course. Although they don’t have much experience on programming and computational intelligence (CI), the small competition makes them enjoy programming and understand the concepts of CI. In this paper, we’d like to introduce the competition, software used, modification to them, controllers developed, and results. This report will be useful to the CIG community which plan to use competition software for their class.