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We forgot to specify a due date for [[Lab 2]] so far. It will be due on Friday, October 3.
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=== Wednesday, September 24 ===

Revision as of 01:23, 29 September 2008

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This is the site for 6.034 Artificial Intelligence, with Professor Patrick Winston.

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News

Sunday, September 28

We forgot to specify a due date for Lab 2 so far. It will be due on Friday, October 3.

Wednesday, September 24

Quiz one is graded. You can get it back from your recitation instructor on Thursday or Friday, or failing that, from your TA Monday and Tuesday, or failing that, from Professor Winston, 32-251, catch as catch can. Answers will be discussed in recitation. Breakpoints follow:

Thorough understanding Adequate understanding Needs work
Problem 1 ≥ 46 ≥ 40 < 40
Problem 2 ≥ 44 ≥ 35 < 35
Overall ≥ 90 ≥ 75 < 75

Per grading policy, your quiz one grade will be compared with Part 1 of the final, and you will get the higher grade. See Grading and collaboration policy for details.

Tuesday, September 23

Students in Monday tutorials this week should attend a Tuesday tutorial of their choice.

Monday, September 15

Due to problems with the tester, we've extended the due date of Lab 1 until Friday, September 19.

Thursday, September 11

Lab 1 is released.

Start on it as soon as you are able. It's due next Wednesday, September 17, and includes a non-trivial programming task (to write a procedure for backward chaining).

Monday, September 8

Tutorials have been assigned. Recitations haven't yet. You should have received your section number by e-mail. Times and places are on the Tutorials page.

If you didn't fill out a tutorial sheet, just go to a section that you can make it to, and ask the TA when you get there.

Friday, September 5

The notes from the mega-recitation Python for Schemers are up.

Wednesday, September 3

Mega-recitations

We were unclear about the time of mega-recitations. Mega-recitations occur on Fridays at 11 AM, the same time slot that is occupied by lectures on Mondays and Wednesdays.

The first mega-recitation, on Friday, September 5, will teach "Python for Schemers".

Times and places of recitations and tutorials

If you have not yet filled out recitation and tutorial scheduling forms, please pick up spare copies and leave them at 32-251 as soon as possible. You will learn which tutorial and recitation you are in by email.

Python

In the fall of 2008, the official language of 6.034 will be Python for a variety of reasons having little to do with the strengths and weaknesses of the language. Relative to past years, homework will ramp up somewhat more gently to give Scheme speakers an opportunity to adapt. We expect a weekend with any of the many Python books would be adequate preparation. See, for example, the Amazon list.

Alternatively, you can follow one of the suggestions of Rob Speer, head 6.034 TA:

  • Dive into Python is a well-recommended book that is available online. It's written for experienced programmers who just don't know Python yet. It's meant to quickly take what you already know about other languages and explain how Python does them.
  • At the other end of the spectrum, the text that was used in 6.00 has been expanded into one called Think Python. It's online. It is targeted at people who have not programmed much or at all.
  • In the middle is the O'Reilly book Learning Python. MIT has a subscription to O'Reilly, so anyone with an MIT IP address can read the book online.
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