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README Description & Summary:

This program simulates the maxConnect4 game by fetching the board input from freshGame.txt and also runs in two modes. 1)human-computer mode 2)computer-computer mode

The project consists of 9 files

1)Main class -maxConnect4.java 2)BoardReader.java- to read the input txt file and board details 3)BoardWriter.java-to print the board results in console. 4)GameBoard.java - Simulates a gameboard play. 5)HumanPlayer.java - Simulates human player 6)AiPlayer.java - Simulates computer player 7)Player.java - interface 8)PlayerIdentifier.java -enum to identify the player , -human or computer 9)PlayMode.java - Enum which shows the number of playmodes

How to Run The program operates in two modes :

1. Human- Computer mode
2. computer-computer mode.

Human-Computer mode The human computer mode accepts an input file to initialize the board which is given in freshGame.txt also the program must mention the mode as human-computer.

Usage: java [program name] human-computer [input_file] eg: java maxConnect4 human-computer freshGame.txt

Computer-Computer mode The computer-computer mode accepts an input file and outputfile to initialize the board and to print the results to a file. Also the program must mention the mode as computer-computer. The other computer program should give the output of the first program as its input file and vice versa for both the computers to communicate with each other. Usage: java [program name] computer-computer [input_file] [output-file] eg: java maxConnect4 computer-computer input1.txt input2.txt

Example: Computer 1 java maxConnect4 computer-computer input_1.txt input_2.txt

Computer2 java maxConnect4 computer-computer input_2.txt input_1.txt

Compiler Used:

Java Compiler

Platform Used : Java Development Kit 1.8 J2SE ( Java 2 Platform,Standard Edition) 1.8

Compiling & running the program Compiling : javac *.java

To run human-computer mode: java maxConnect4 human-computer freshGame.txt

To run computer-computer mode: For Program 1:(in separate terminal) java maxConnect4 computer-computer input_1.txt input_2.txt For Program 2: (in separate terminal) java maxConnect4 computer-computer input_2.txt input_1.txt

DataStructures & Algo Used The DataStructure used here are Arraylist, HashMap. Algorithm used is MinMax Algorithm to simulate Computer player.

References Used: http://vlm1.uta.edu/~athitsos/courses/cse4308_summer2012/assignments/programming2/ http://www.wieschoo.com/tutorials/optimization/connect4-ai-minimax/001189/