Project 1: Clock Game

Citation and License

This project belongs to Department of Computer Science, Columbia University. It may be used for educational purposes under Creative Commons with proper attribution and citation for the author TA Akshay Iyer, and the Instructor, Prof. Kenneth Ross.

Summary

Course: COMS 4444 Programming and Problem Solving (Fall 2023)
Problem Description: http://www.cs.columbia.edu/~kar/4444f23/node18.html Course Website: http://www.cs.columbia.edu/~kar/4444f23/4444f23.html University: Columbia University
Instructor: Prof. Kenneth Ross
Project Language: Python

TA Designer for this project

1. Akshay Iyer

Teaching Assistants for Course

1. Akshay Iyer
2. Smrithi Prakash

Installation

Requires python3.9 or higher

Install simulator packages only

pip install -r requirements.txt

Usage

Simulator

bash clock_game.sh False seed_number

Simulator Scheme : Player 1 always plays in black, player 2 always plays in blue, and player 3 always plays in red. All entries in the clock will be masked if a player has not chosen their constraints yet.

If you decide to end the simulator prematurely, press Control+D to terminate the bash script and then run your next command.

Running without Simulator

bash clock_game.sh True seed_number

You can change the random seed, number of constraints per player and timeout by changing the values inside constants.py.

Check your results on a large number of runs (Code thanks to team 4)

bash simulate.sh (num_iterations) (p1) (p2) (p3)

This will print out average and standard deviation for num_iterations iterations.

The final result and log files should look as shown in the file "Result_example.png".