RL has become so popular that there is now a race to just build tools that help build RL algorithms. The two major competitors in this area right now are OpenAI Gym and Unity. Unity has quickly become the RL racing machine we will explore extensively later. For now, we will put our training wheels on and run OpenAI Gym to explore the fundamentals of RL further.
We need to install the OpenAI Gym toolkit before we can continue, and installation may vary greatly depending on your operating system. As such, we will focus on the Windows installation instructions here, as it is likely other OS users will have less difficulty. Follow the next steps to install OpenAI Gym on Windows:
- Install a C++ compiler; if you have Visual Studio 2017 installed, you may already have a recommended one. You can find other supported compilers here: https://wiki.python.org/moin/WindowsCompilers...
