caggri/projectdolphin

Repository for CS461-Artificial Intelligence course. It will contain Homework and Project

ProjectDolphin

Repository for CS461-Artificial Intelligence course. It will contain Homework and Project.

It is an AI program that solves New York Times Daily Mini crossword puzzle prepared by Joel Fagliano.

Instructor: Prof. Varol AKMAN

Usage

For homeworks, you can simply compile source codes and see the outputs.

Project

• You need Node, ReactJS and Python 3 to run the project.
• Clone the project folder.

Front-End

• Start React server:

$ cd Front-End

$ npm install

$ npm start

Front-End server should be working now.

Back-End

• For Back-end we use Python 3 to install it is highly recommended to use a Virtual Environment.

• Before installing Back-End server make sure you have Python 3, pip and Virtual Environment. Make sure you have downloaded Python > 3.4, pip is bundled with newer versions.

• If you don't have Python 3, pip, Virtual Environment do following steps.

  1. Check your Python version

     • for Windows by typing

       python --version
       

     • for UNIX-Like Operation Systems (Mac OS X / OS X / macOS / GNU Linux Distributions) by typing

       python3 --version
       

     • If you don't have Python 3
       • Python 3 can be downloaded from

         https://www.python.org/
         

  2. Installation of Virtual Environment

     • for Windows by typing

       py -m pip install --upgrade pip
       

     • for UNIX-Like Operation Systems by typing

       python3 -m pip install --user --upgrade pip  
       

• To create and start a Virtual Environment

  • Create a Virtual Environment by typing

    python3 -m venv virtual_environment_name
    

    This command will create a folder with the given name.

  • To start Virtual Environment go to created folder

    • for Windows by typing

      tutorial-env\Scripts\activate.bat
      

    • for UNIX-Like Operation Systems by typing

      source bin/activate
      

• All project dependencies listed in requirements.txt file in back-end folder.

  • to install dependencies, type

    pip install -r requirements.txt
    

    This command will install all dependencies automatically.

Crawler

• Crawler needs Google Chrome. Download the suitable ChromeDriver from here http://chromedriver.chromium.org
• Specify the path of ChromeDriver in line 161 in crawler.py

Installation process completed, now you can run the Back-End server by typing:

python server.py

• Virtual Environment can be deactivated by typing,

deactivate