At UNSW where I did my bachelors, Many of my courses had a battle of algorithms as assignments. One was building a Lego mindstorms robot that would fight other

At UNSW where I did my bachelors, Many of my courses had a battle of algorithms as assignments. One was building a Lego mindstorms robot that would fight other robots. Or follow black tape on white board to traverse a maze. Other assignments would involve bots that would play yahtzee, connect four, chess and other games. I spent so much time on these assignments trying to win that I gave only the basic effort needed to pass on other assignments. At one point I stayed up 48 hours straight to gain an extra 1% advantage by rewriting all my java code in c++ so I could traverse more possible scenarios. Fun days.