# Additional Readings [[additional-readings]]

These are **optional readings** if you want to go deeper.

## Deep Reinforcement Learning [[deep-rl]]

- [Reinforcement Learning: An Introduction, Richard Sutton and Andrew G. Barto Chapter 1, 2 and 3](http://incompleteideas.net/book/RLbook2020.pdf)
- [Foundations of Deep RL Series, L1 MDPs, Exact Solution Methods, Max-ent RL by Pieter Abbeel](https://youtu.be/2GwBez0D20A)
- [Spinning Up RL by OpenAI Part 1: Key concepts of RL](https://spinningup.openai.com/en/latest/spinningup/rl_intro.html)

## Gym [[gym]]

- [Getting Started With OpenAI Gym: The Basic Building Blocks](https://blog.paperspace.com/getting-started-with-openai-gym/)
- [Make your own Gym custom environment](https://www.gymlibrary.dev/content/environment_creation/)


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