README.md

Homework 7

1. Fork a copy for your changes
2. Clone it to your local workstation
3. Create a new project to host your AI in https://console.cloud.google.com
4. Update the "application" field in app.yaml to match your application id
5. appcfg.py update python/ or goapp deploy go/ to deploy your app
6. Add the appspot address to the "Othello Players" sheet
7. Modify the way a move is picked
8. re-deploy the app
9. repeat steps 7 and 8 until you have a very clever AI :)
10. eventually push your awesome clever AI to github.
    • If you want to keep it secret until Thursday night, that's fine.
11. email step16 with your github repository link as usual.

Using reflector.go

You can use this "reflector" program to make a locally running dev_appserver instance act like a human player (i.e. you don't have to deploy the whole app to have it run a game).

To run it:

• download and install Go if you don't have it already.
• Start a new game on https://step-othello.appspot.com with a "Human (or Local bot)" selected as one of the players
• copy the URL of that browser tab showing that game (i.e. a URL that looks like "https://step-othello.appspot.com/view?gamekey=fOoBaR")
• type go run reflector.go "https://step-othello.appspot.com/view?gamekey=fOoBaR"
  • (but pasting your actual viewer URL there -- fOoBaR is not a real game ;)