SRA Simple Console Chatbot

A lightweight, rule-based console chatbot built with C#. This project demonstrates basic programming concepts including input handling, conditional logic, and modular code organization.

🚀 Features

• Simple command-line interface
• Case-insensitive command recognition
• Greeting responses for "hi" and "hello"
• Exit command to terminate the program
• Null/empty input handling
• Basic error handling with try-catch

🏗️ Project Structure

SRA/
├── SRA.EntryPoint.cs   - Entry point, exception handling
├── SRA.Core.cs         - Main chat logic and loop control
└── SRA.InputHandle.cs  - Response messages handler

📋 Prerequisites

• .NET SDK (version 6.0 or later)
• Any C# compatible IDE (Visual Studio, VS Code, Rider, or command line)

🔧 Installation & Usage

Clone and Build

git clone https://github.com/dryfish09/SmallRuleAI.git
cd SmallRuleAI/src
dotnet restore
dotnet build

Run the Program

dotnet run

Example Interaction

Welcome! Type 'exit' to exit program
You: hi
 AI: Hi there! What's up!
You: hello
 AI: Hi there! What's up!
You: how are you?
 AI: Sorry, I don't know about that
You: 
 AI: Oops! Please talk anything!
You: exit
(Program ends)

🎮 Available Commands

Command	Response
hi, hello	Greeting message
exit	Exit the program
(empty input)	Null input handler
anything else	Default fallback response

🧠 How It Works

1. Program.Main() - Initializes the program and handles unexpected exceptions
2. Core.Logic() - Runs the main chat loop:
   • Reads user input
   • Normalizes text (lowercase + trim)
   • Checks for keywords using conditional statements
   • Calls appropriate response methods
3. Response class - Contains static methods for different reply types

📝 Code Example

// Core logic snippet
string input = Console.ReadLine()?.ToLower().Trim() ?? "";
if(string.IsNullOrWhiteSpace(input))
{
    Response.HandleNull();
}
else if(input.Contains("hi") || input.Contains("hello"))
{
    Response.Greet();
}
else if(input == "exit")
{
    run = false;
}

🔮 Possible Improvements

• Add more keywords and responses
• Implement random response variations
• Add conversation history tracking
• Integrate with real AI APIs (OpenAI, etc.)
• Add configuration file for custom responses
• Implement natural language processing
• Save chat logs to file

🤝 Contributing

Feel free to fork this project and add more features! This is a great starting point for learning C# and OOP concepts.

📄 License

MIT License - feel free to use, modify, and distribute.

👨‍💻 Author

Dry Fish

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Note: This is a rule-based chatbot, not an AI/ML model. It responds based on keyword matching only.