Artificial Intelligence Programming

The first lines of computer code you ever write can be part of your very own chess AI. Zero programming experience required!

Are you interested in artificial intelligence, but you've always felt it's too advanced for you? Do you like chess? Then this workshop is for you!

This workshop explores the Chess Playground project which was specifically designed for learners with zero programming experience. It also connects these simple concepts to the chess AI sandbox game ChessCraft.

Tasks

In this workshop, learners will:

Learn the very basics of computer programming.
Explore the "Chess Playground" Java project.
Learn about one of the simplest and most powerful concepts in AI - MinMax.
Create their own evaluation function and see it play against another computer, or against human players!
Run computer code on their personal devices.

Successfully Tested!

This workshop has been successfully tested on high school students.