the easier way : watch the course vids here : Berkeley CS294 Deep Reinforcement Learning Fall 2017: http://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLkFD6_40KJIznC9CDbVTjA...

harder more complete way: read this "Deep Reinforcement Learning: An Overview", https://arxiv.org/abs/1701.07274 progressively implementing subparts in Python and openai gym https://gym.openai.com/read-only.html

IRC FreeNode, channel #BWAPI. Most of the authors of the bots competing 24/7 in https://twitch.tv/sscait hang around in various times of the day and night. They can provide you with plenty of entry material.

Few links:

- https://sscaitournament.com/

- https://github.com/dgant/purplewave

blizzard have a github account with a couple of py libs for sc2 and other games.

https://github.com/blizzard

starcraftai.com ?