AI and Games

• In this module we will study three things
• How to make Games
• AI Algorithms
• How to use AI algorithms to play/stimulate/reinforce games
• Getting Started
• Making Tic-Tac-Toe game using Python and pygames (A Python game library)
• Minimax Algorithm and Alpha-Beta Pruning ( A algorithm used to find the optimal move for a player assuming the opponent is also playing optimally.

Getting Started with Competitive Programming

• Learn a Programming Language:
  • First you need to learn one of the programming languages. Start with C. As such any programming language will do. But most problems are set with C/C++ programmers in mind, so knowing any one of them will be really helpful.
    Lecture Notes for C
    • Introduction
    • Introduction Continued
    • Data Types in C
    • Data Types and Variables
    • Operators
    • Operators Continued
    • Conditional Expressions
    • Conditional Statements
    • While Loop
    • For Loop
    • Scope of a Variable in C
    • Introduction to Functions in C
    • Functions Continued
    • Arrays
    • Passing arrays to Functions
    • Generating Prime Numbers using Sieve of Eratosthenes
    • Problems
    • Introduction to Strings
    • Strings Continued
    • String Functions
    • Multi-Dimensional Arrays
    • Recurssion
    • Recurssion Continued
    • Binary Search , Time Estimation , Recurssion vs Iteration
    • Pointers in C
    • Pointers Continued
    • Dynamic Memory Allocation
    • Dynamic Memory Allocation Continued
    • More on Pointers
    • Sorting ( Selection Sort , Merge Sort , Quick Sort )
    • Structures
    • Structures Continued
    • Linked List
    • Linked List Continued
    • Command Line and File Handling
    • Reading from and Writing to a File from C Program
  • Now let's study C++. C++ is superset of C with additional tools. Just Watch the below video and Study STL,that will be enough. Link to study Standard Template Library (STL) – a great tool that, sometimes, can save you a lot of time in an algorithm competition.
  • Some knowledge of python will also help.
• Practice Problems :
  • There are many programming platforms.I will suggest to start with HackerRank.
  • To move ahead and solve all range of problems , you will have to study different Data Structures.
• Data Structures and Algorithms : IITD Video Lectures , IIT KGP Video Lectures , Book Introduction to Algorithms (CLRS) .It's highly recommended to read the chapter on Graphs from this book.
• Dynamic Programming : Geeks for Geeks , Standard Dynamic Programming Problems (Must Watch)
• C++ Reference : Link , Link

Web Development

• Watch all the modules, except module 3 of this coursera course for web development. Link
• Watch this video to revise what you have learned
• Tutorial on Flex Box, which helps in making the site responsive to the screen size Link
• Learn PHP Link
• What is Database & SQL ?
• Learn MySQL:
• Dealing with security issues:
• Use Beautiful Soup a Python library for web scrapping.

Object Oriented Programming

• OOP in Python
• OOP in C++

Electrodynamics :

• Introduction to Electrodynamics by David J. Griffiths (One of the best Physics Textbook) Link
• Video lectures covering the book : Link
• Solution to the problems of the book : Link
• Classical Electrodynamics by John David Jackson : Link
• Solution to problems in the book : Link

Quantum Mechanics :

• The two mental pictures which experiments lead us to from -- the one of particles, the other of waves -- are both incomplete and have the validity of anologies which are accurate only in limiting cases. The apperent duality arises in limitation of our language.
• It should not be suprising that our language is incapable to describing processes occuring within the atoms,for,as has been remarked, it was invented to describe the experiences of daily life, and these consist only of processes involving exceedingly large number of atoms. Furthermore it is very difficult to modify our language, so that it will be able to describe these atomic processes, for words can only describe things of which we can form mental picture, and this ability is to a result of daily experience. Fortunately Mathematics is not subject to this limitation, and it has been possible to invent a mathematical scheme -- THE QUANTUM THEORY -- which seems entirely adequate for the treatment of atomic processes. For visualization however, we must content ourselves with two incomplete analogies -- the wave picture and the corpuscular picture. -- W.Heisenberg
• Lecture on Quantum Mechanics by Prof.Allan Adams : Link (These are the best lectures, I ever came across while studying any subject)
• Introduction to Quantum Mechanics by Prof.Manoj Harbola Link
• One electron double slit experiment by Akira Tonomura :

Special Relativity :

• Video Lectures Stanford

General Relativity :

• Video Lectures Stanford

Linear Algebra :

• Video Lectures by Prof. Gilbert Strang : Link