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Some programming tips

This is a News page, written Fri Jan 18 18:57:17 PST 2008.

Cost benefits of recursion/iteration.
How to profile some of your code to find hotspots.
How to profile all of your code.

Week 1 news

This is a News page, written Thu Jan 17 11:04:02 PST 2008.

More AI fun (courtesy of Josh Williams): is LISP God's language?
Week1 review questions on-line.
Jonathon Lynch has a fix for the can't find LISP problem.

Week 2 work now on-line.

This is a News page, written Sun Jan 13 21:24:31 PST 2008.

See http://menzies.us/csx72/?week2.

Getting a head start on the subject...

This is a News page, written Fri Jan 11 20:12:16 PST 2008.

For those of you who want to get a head start on the subject:

The syllabus is on-line at http://menzies.us/csx72/?syllabus.
The textbook is described at http://menzies.us/csx72/?2.
Lab1 (which we are doing in week1) is at http://menzies.us/csx72/?133.
Project1 (due week4) is on-line at http://menzies.us/csx72/?11.

Note that:

There are no mark associated with Lab1. it is just some warm up stuff. no drama.
You should read the textbook chapter 1,2,3 before starting Lab1.
You should complete Lab1 before starting Project1 (there's stuff in the lab you'll need for the project)

5 more places available in cs572

This is a News page, written Fri Dec 7 05:17:02 PST 2007.

There are now 5 more spare slots in cs572. Enrol quickly- they are filling up fast!

Norvig's support code not working

This is a News | Lisp page, written Mon Dec 3 08:03:47 PST 2007.

After much sweat, I have given up trying to run Norvig's code using his support tools.

The code in the pages of the textbook is fine- but the support tools seem to be written for quirky older versions of LISP.

So now, to run Norvig's stuff, I carefully paste in the functions one-by-one and only those from the pages of the textbook. Slower, yes, but at least I understand the code that I load.