Learner’s Permit: Accessible Artificial Intelligence Through an Educational Game

an interactive programming game where the player’s objective is to teach a car to drive itself

Yuan, J., Lieberman, H., Smith, D.C., Xin, Y. (2025). Learner’s Permit:
Accessible Artificial Intelligence Through an Educational Game. In: Schlippe,
T., Cheng, E.C.K., Wang, T. (eds) Artificial Intelligence in Education Technologies:
New Development and Innovative Practices. AIET 2024. Lecture Notes on Data Engineering
and Communications Technologies, vol 228. Springer, Singapore.
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-97-9255-9_32

file structure (still being updated)

Learner's Permit file structure is roughly organized like this:

├── learners-permit
│   ├── assets
│   ├── data
│   ├── models

Where all main source files are under the outer learners-permit folder, pictures and graphics are under assets, collected and inputted data are under data, and associated machine learning models are under models.

running the code

To run the code, navigate to the root directory and run

python3 learner-permit.py

Note if you need to import dependencies, you may need to install pygame

code structure

The navigation and menu logic lies in learner-permit.py. This file imports from car-game.py and its different variants. We have a variant of the CarGame class for each of the different game, prediction, playback, and generate modes of the game.