Unfortunately, the academic integrity policies at Cornell University prohibit making source code from course projects publically available. However, we have received permission from the instructor to share the repository with individual employers. Feel free to contact me, if you find this project interesting and wish to view the source code!

CritterWorld is a project that simulates a world of small agents—critters—with the goal to survive. These critters can move, eat, attack each other and even mate with other willing critters. Critters are also able to sense the nearest piece of food with a “smell” command, implemented with a modified version of Dijkstra's shortest path algorithm.

Each critter behaves according to a “Critter Program” unique to each critter. This program is written in the “Critter Language”—a context-free grammar—defined by the course staff which can be found in the detailed project spec below. As part of the project, I wrote the parser and interpreter for this critter language. New critters inherit the critter program from their parents with a slight chance of mutation—implemented using fault injection in the abstract syntax trees constructed by the interpreter of the critter language. The GUI was designed with UX principles in mind and built in JavaFX.

More detailed project spec can be found here.