[tephra]

Every year the CS department at my old uni have a get together dinner for old and current students and teachers.

The main event is a programming competition called snakeu (or something similar can never get the spelling correct), which is exactly this but in Java and no web servers.

A few times the winner have been the team that took the basic snake which always turns right and improved it by always turning left (generally you get 15 or 30 mins to code it).