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=== September 9th ===
=== September 9th ===

Revision as of 02:12, 11 September 2009

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

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September 10th

Lab 0 is now available.

Please do bring a laptop to the mega-recitation tomorrow, if you have one.

Download Python 2.6 from python.org -- do not download 3.1, as it will be incompatible with some of the software we hand out. This download also includes the IDLE program, which we will demonstrate tomorrow.

September 9th

Give us your tutorial availability please.

There will be no regular recitations this week. There is a mega-recitation, however.

The slides (missing from lecture today) are now available.


Mega-recitations

Mega-recitations occur on Fridays at 10 AM in 10-250, the same time slot that is occupied by lectures on Mondays and Wednesdays.

The first mega-recitation, on Friday, September 11th, will be a refresher on the Python programming language.

Times and places of recitations and tutorials

Please fill out the Tutorial scheduling form. You will learn which tutorial you are in by email.

Unexpectedly, the registrar supplied us with recitation time slots we can live with, so attend at the time and place you were assigned.


Python

The official language of 6.034 is Python for a variety of reasons having little to do with the strengths and weaknesses of the language. We expect a focused 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 in 2008:

  • 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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