README.md

Purpose:

Using reinforcement learning, the NN will learn to predict the alphabet that you are drawing in the pixelated drawing board. This takes many generations to adequately train the model and was mainly intended as an intro project for NNs.

Requirements:

This could take 30 minutes for initial set up

START HERE

Learn From?

-----------SCRATCH-----------

To create a workspace:

• dev-env-1
• dev-env-2

Setting up your own external libs:

Getting SDL2 to work:

• setup-sdl2-with-VScode-mingw64-on-windows

More Linking Libs:

• how-to-use-libraries
• vscode-c-task-json-include-path-and-libraries

-----------HEAD-START-----------

Watch this video to install a compiler (mingw):

• mingw-w64
• gcc/g++/gdb/windows-config

The #include main.h statement pulls all the class and function definitions from the main.h header file. This cleans up the main.cpp code.

If you are having a hard time use this tutorial

If it worked congrats!

• Expected result is some data dump to the terminal and a tab should open with a GUI of a red screen