http://www.udacity.com/overview/Course/cs212
*PETER NORVIG* Peter Norvig is Director of Research at Google Inc. He is also a Fellow of the American Association for Artificial Intelligence and the Association for Computing Machinery. Norvig is co-author of the popular textbook Artificial Intelligence: A Modern Approach. Prior to joining Google he was the head of the Computation Sciences Division at NASA Ames Research Center. *SYLLABUS* DESIGN OF COMPUTER PROGRAMS The key to progressing from a novice programmer to an expert is mindful practice. In this class you will practice going from a problem description to a solution, using a series of assignments. With each problem you will learn new concepts, patterns, and methods that will expand your ability and help move you along the path from novice towards expertise. WEEK 1: Winning Poker Hands Steps of the design process; Developing for clarity and generality; Arguments for program correctness; Experimentation and simulation.; Design tradeoffs; Simplicity and Clarity. Decomposition and composability. WEEK 2: Back of the Envelope Back of envelope calculations; When to use brute force and when to be clever; The Zebra puzzle; Generator expressions; Permutations and combinations. Cryptarithmetic; Recursive and wishful thinking. WEEK 3: Regular Expressions, other languages and interpreters Defining the language of regular expressions; Interpreting the language; Defining the set of strings matched by a regular expression; Other languages. WEEK 4: Dealing with complexity through search Search: finding your way with a flashlight or boat; pouring water. Analyzing the efficiency of an algorithm; Recurrence relations; Matching data types with algorithms; Majority algorithm; Longest palindrome substring algorithm. WEEK 5: Dealing with uncertainty through probability Probability: the game of Pig; Maximizing expected utility to optimize strategy. WEEK 6: Word Games Managing complexity; Large sets of words; Appropriate data structures; Word games. WEEK 7: Conclusion Final exam/project -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "cfaussie" group. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msg/cfaussie/-/Z7rg9FLcZQsJ. To post to this group, send email to cfaussie@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to cfaussie+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/cfaussie?hl=en.
