You can even jump straight in with tutorials like this one from CS Dojo that teach you how to make a simple Python Twitter bot with no experience at all. As you start to code, you’ll quickly ...

They found the existing range of bot detection tools weren’t very good. “We downloaded one of the [bot] datasets from a website, trained a simple model in Python, and got, like, 99% accuracy ...

Then I got the Twitter bot running on my Raspberry Pi using Twython. This was a fun little experiment. So go ahead and follow @538bot to see what exactly the fox said.

We find the programming challenge of game-playing bots to be fascinating. Take a look at this Python bot which plays Burrito Bison all the way through (video after the break). This is a totally ...