AlphaFour is a senior design project for Mechanical Engineering students at UCLA. It is a robot that can play Connect 4 against a human opponent.
To run the code, first create run the Makefile, inside the main directory, enter the following command
make
Then, a new file should appear in the ./bin/ folder, you can run this binary file while still inside the main directory by entering the following command
./bin/alpha4
Our bible is this 15 year old blog post from some French PhD. candidate https://blog.gamesolver.org The biggest learning curve is that the game state is stored inside a single 64-bit integer, rather than a 2D-array.