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OMP34120 AI and Games First Semester Project Kalah Bot Source code

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Build a random agent in python3 #1

Open eubinecto opened 3 years ago

eubinecto commented 3 years ago

why?

to get the hang of how the protocol works
to build an abstract interface over the protocol, for ease of development
to build an environment suitable to work with python
to have a baseline agent to compare to (albeit a stupid one)

goal?

the goal is to write:

[x] Agent class in agent.py. The base interface for all agents. Not runnable. Just implements reusable code for other agents.
[x] RandomAgent class in random_agent.py. An agent that just makes random moves. This is also a runnable script.
[x] Server class for hosting an agent with a server socket.

so that on running the following commands in bash:

python3 random_agent.py localhost 12345
java -jar kalah/ManKalah.jar "nc localhost 12345" "java -jar kalah/MkRefAgent.jar"

we can replicate exactly the same behaviour of:

nc -l localhost 12345
java -jar kalah/ManKalah.jar "nc localhost 12345" "java -jar kalah/MkRefAgent.jar"

note: the -l option for nc command is for "listen mode. For inbound connects".

well, that's the goal as of right now. Just replicate what we can do with the Java code base.

how?

use socket module for receiving message from & sending protocol to the game engine
design paradigm for implementing agents: finite state machine.
- pytransitions/transitions seems like a good entry point for building FSM in python.
needs to maintain the status of the board. Agent maintains board member variable, of type Board.

eubinecto commented 3 years ago

still having some issues with handling game over message. Will fix this after I'm dome with #3