Swarvy

I've been reading about AI programming recently, and although I understand the idea, and the general technique, I am having a problem writing my own source code. I was wondering if anyone knows where I can find some example code I can read, so that i have something to base my own code on.

Perspective

How about a little more information... AI is a rather large field. Are you trying to implement something in particular? What "general technique" are you talking about?

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Swarvy

Sorry, my bad. I've read the tutorials on cprogramming.com and a few other places about minimax trees, and I understand the basic idea, although I must come up with an implementation of it for a tic tac toe game. After reading the tutorials, I understand the basic concept, although I'm having trouble translating that into program code, so I was thinking that if I could find some existing source code for this, then it would help me to get the ball rolling so to speak.

Perspective

search these boards (the contest board in particular) for the connect 4 contest. I believe everyone posted their code and minimax was likely the basis for all of them.

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abachler

Well, i recommend you read Russel and Norvig (ISBN 0-13-790395-2) for an overview of AI, as for example code, a simple google search should turn up examples of any particular technique. BTW russel and norvig is a very broad overview, I think they spend something like 4 pages on minimax, out of a 1000+ pages of text, so obviously AI is a very large field. I think they spend about 20 pages on neural networks, and then of course I have books that get more specific about neural networks in general, and then neural networks for specific applications, im sure there are similar texts for minimax.

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