Santa's Workshop Simulation

This is a project to simulate Santa and his elves preparing the presents for children for Christmas.

This project is written in Golang and uses the Ebiten library for the visualisation, and Chris Gora's semaphore library.

Demonstration

Watch the demonstration on Youtube to see it working!

Techniques Implemented

• Multi-threading (to simulate the elves)
• Remote Procedure Calls (RPC) (to send the list of children to Santa's Workshop)
• Mutex locks (to prevent any race conditions)
• Semaphores (to simulate the maximum number of elves in the storage room)

How to Run

Currently there is no server set up, so you will need to run the server locally. To do this, navigate to the server folder in a terminal, then type go run workshop.go. Next, open up another terminal and navigate to the project directory, then type go run main.go.

You can also run tests by navigating to the test folder and type go test -v. You may want to consider running a specific test, which you can do by typing go test -v -run= followed by one of the following tests:

• TestResults
• TestDistances
• TestInput
• TestTime