EmDriver

After school I taught myself how to use Python and the first program that I wrote (subjectively because how many iterations did I write to get the program to where it is now) was a video game where I programed multiple difficulties of AI with the goal that the AI could not "cheat". Without realizing what I was doing, I created a fairly simple neural network from scratch in 2014 (pure barebone python (Kivy and a few others were also used for other parts of the program)) that gathered only the information that would be available for the human players and then had it apply 'weights' to every available action it could make to determine what move to make. The program was able to take into account every move that had been previously made by itself and the humans players to calculate the strengths of all available actions to take throughout the course of the game. This allowed the AI to react in a logical way to whatever strategy that a player would use.