Tic Tac Toe in Silverlight

When I first started looking Silverlight, I looked around for tutorials that focused on topics I find interesting. I have found that I typically learn better if I'm applying learning to topics for which I have a passion.

I love games and one of the simplest is Tic Tac Toe. I thought if I could find a tutorial on implementing Tic Tac Toe in Silverlight, it would not only teach the basics of Silverlight development but would also teach how to interact with graphics. Unfortunately I could not find such a tutorial.

I eventually waded my way through much less entertaining tutorials and got my programming feet wet with Silverlight. As a test of my learning I wrote a two player Tic Tac Toe game.

After finishing my first AI post on Rock/Paper/Scissors I started looking for my next AI project. Well I had that two player Silverlight game laying around, how about I write an AI opponent for it?

What could be easier?

Well a lot of things could be easier, like "Hello World", but once I get my teeth into a project I see it to the end. Well, first things first, how have others designed AI opponents for Tic Tac Toe? A quick google search proved that I was definitely not blazing an new trails here. I found tons of examples for just about every type of AI for Tic Tac Toe.

But this webpage gives a simple set of patterns for matching. Best of all, they could be implemented using Regular Expressions!

So, here is my Silverlight AI Tic Tac Toe game where the pattern matching AI is implemented using Regular Expressions.



And here is a zip file containing the entire Visual Studio 2008 Project.