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(Message started by: Emaad on May 29^th, 2010, 10:20am)

Title: how to make a bot?
Post by Emaad on May 29^th, 2010, 10:20am

I've been playing arimaa for along time and I was wondering if there is a sight where I can learn to program a bot

Title: Re: how to make a bot?
Post by Fritzlein on May 29^th, 2010, 10:37am

on 05/29/10 at 10:20:34, Emaad wrote:

I've been playing arimaa for along time and I was wondering if there is a sight where I can learn to program a bot

It depends on how much you already know about programming. There are great resources out there for bot programming, but only if you are already an experienced coder. If you aren't already experienced, then you might want to consider some other project for learning how to program. I'm afraid that if you try to learn how to program by trying to learn how Arimaa bots work, you might end up learning neither. :'(

Title: Re: how to make a bot?
Post by Emaad on May 29^th, 2010, 11:05am

well I can do very basic programming like html
(wich you use to design web pages)

Title: Re: how to make a bot?
Post by rbarreira on May 29^th, 2010, 11:29am

You have to learn something like C, C++, Python or Java (to name a few).

Title: Re: how to make a bot?
Post by Emaad on May 29^th, 2010, 11:36am

ok, thanks I'll do wht fritz said and learn a little more about java before I try to make A bot thanks!!

Title: Re: how to make a bot?
Post by Nombril on Oct 31^st, 2010, 2:53pm

Any recommendations for resource(s) to teach myself Java? I did some other stuff a decade ago (Visual Basic, etc) and am considering getting back up to speed in the world of computers.

Title: For
Post by clojure on Oct 31^st, 2010, 3:05pm

Here is an interactive site that helps with basics
http://javala.cs.tut.fi/en/welcomePage.do

I cannot recommend any Java specific book since I've learned from Finnish resources. The official API is a must when you are ready to concretely do stuff. http://download.oracle.com/javase/6/docs/api/

For development environment, you might find Eclipse good enough http://www.eclipse.org/

If you don't know what object oriented programming is, then you need to get a basic understanding of that first. I haven't any suggestions for that either :(

Oh, this might help: http://download.oracle.com/javase/tutorial/java/concepts/

Also this interactive software might help you understand the concepts http://www.bluej.org/index.html

Title: Re: how to make a bot?
Post by hmsimha on Nov 26^th, 2010, 5:54am

I have experience in C, C++, Python, and Java and am also wondering how to go about making a bot. I know I could code the arimaa game specifications into a program of my own but that wouldn't be compatible with the online gameroom.

Title: Re: how to make a bot?
Post by rbarreira on Nov 26^th, 2010, 6:26am

on 11/26/10 at 05:54:45, hmsimha wrote:

http://arimaa.janzert.com/aei/

If you know any of those languages reasonably well, it's easy to make a bot which can play in the gameroom using this tool.