Learning Clojure and ClojureScript by playing a card game
summary
A playable Gin Rummy system built in stages: a desktop bot using java.awt.Robot that screenshots the table, detects card edges and identifies cards by sampling a few top‑left pixels; a Clojure core that models cards as maps (not objects) and reuses the Scheme opponent logic; a ClojureScript browser UI with drag‑and‑drop wired to DataScript and Google Closure tools; a networked version backed by Datomic time T snapshots for reconnects. A neural‑network self‑play experiment runs but stalls on local maxima due to random initial evaluations.
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chapters (12)
- 0:00Start
- 1:142007
- 4:53Building a Robot
- 5:45Robot demo
- 10:58Gin Rummy Clojure Script
- 12:57Ace of hearts
- 14:58Ace of clubs
- 18:03Play over the network
- 20:09Architecture
- 22:34The power of T
- 28:27Learning from self-play
- 30:55Lessons Learned
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