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Welcome to the 2019 Edition of 6.034
Logistical stuff
Reference stuff
- Calendar
- Reference material
- Labs (also known as "problem sets")
- Piazza
- Demonstrations
- Dylan's AI Demonstrations
- Quiz archive
- 6.844 Info
Note that the current staff mailing list is 6.034-2019-staff@.
News
Summer 2019
6.034 Lab 0 Released
Many students interested in taking 6.034 for credit wonder if their Python skills are adequate for the 6.034 laboratory assignments, especially those who have not taken 6.0001 or equivalent. The answer is to be found in Lab 0, which in past years we have released at the beginning of the semester.
You can look over Lab 0 now, before the semester begins, so that you can determine if you should review Python for a day or two before the semester begins. You can find Lab 0 here. Note however that you cannot actually submit the lab until the semester begins.
Here are some helpful links if you need to brush up on your Python
- Python documentation (includes tutorials you can work through)
- Class site of 6.149 (Intro to Python IAP Class, 2015)
- Google's free Python Class
- Codeacademy
If you have any questions, email the 6.034 staff at 6.034-2019-staff@.
Introducing 6.844, the graduate version of 6.034!
6.844 is the graduate version of 6.034. It will meet with 6.034 and include an additional set of lectures given by Prof. Randy Davis every Friday at 11am in 32-155. This addition will supplement the main lectures and recitations because it will focus on the science side of 6.034, addressing long-standing scientific questions and biological intelligence, rather than existing tools for building applications. Evolution and human language will be emphasized.
Students taking this version complete additional assignments. More information can be found here.
About 6.034, Fall 2019 Edition
In the fall semester of 2019, 6.034 will meet Monday, Wednesday, and Friday from 10am to 11am in 10-250. The lectures, in which we introduce material and talk about the "big picture", usually will be on Monday and Wednesday. On many, but not all Fridays, you will learn about what is happening in the field right now from someone who is doing work right now in an area related to the Monday and Wednesday lectures.
Examinations will cover material from the lectures as well as the right-now talks. It will be extremely difficult to answer questions on the right-now material if you do not attend the right-now talks because the material is not yet in textbooks or, in many cases, published papers.
Recitations will meet weekly on Monday and Tuesday and provide you with a venue in which you can review lecture material, work practice problems, and have small-group discussions. On the first day of class, we will make a link available to a form you will fill out that will enable us to assign you to a recitation.
Labs are programming assignments, released approximately every 7 to 10 days, in which you'll practice your newly acquired skills.
More details will emerge during the first lecture.
6.034 is no longer offered in the spring term.
We are pleased to note that Bloomberg has listed 6.034 as among "Five of the Best Computer Science Classes in the U.S."
