Life In 19x19

I do agree with Mike that there is a huge value in a pre-coding design phase at the "level of abstract operations upon abstract data structures". I also prefer a strong modular design with separation of concerns and a focus on reusable components.

I don't think that Mike is saying that every part ...

Yeah, I did some C professionally a few jobs back and also have played with building neural networks in C. There is definitely something gratifying that comes from working in one of the 'lower' level languages.

I am also thinking about programming a simple AI to tinker on in my free time. At this point I am thinking that algorithms for things like score estimating and determining life/death of groups will be fun to play with. For move generation, I figure I will start with a simple random move generator ...

Ah. This makes sense. There is definitely a lot of information available out there.

I guess when I started looking, I expected to see a forum like this one from the Google AI challenge. http://forums.aichallenge.org/viewforum.php?f=24 . But that was a different situation. So it ...

I am relatively new to Go and am also a programmer. So naturally, the topic of programming computer Go interests me. I have done some Googling and can't find many forums dedicated to Go developers. I have seen developers in discussion on this forum. I am also subscribed to the mailing list at ...