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Teaching CP in Scotland 02/09/2010
Teaching CP in Scotland
02/09/2010
- how you attract students to your CP course - how do you keep them interested - goals/aims of your course - course content, course structure, sequence you do things - languages/toolkits used - textbooks used, key papers, etc - assessed exercises, if any - rubric of your CP exam - final year CP projects, if any - anything else relevant
course website
Aims & goals
• hands on constraint programming (java & choco)• understand underlying technology• model and solve variety of problems• the frontiers of CP• have fun
How we start
1. Present and investigate a problem (or two)2. Introduce our constraint programming toolkit3. Solve some small problems (get our hands dirty)
Week 1 …
3 lectures a week for 10 week
Generally a week goes as follows …
1. introduce a new bit of theory/technology/stuff2. introduce a new problem3. model & solve the problem
1st week
Not in this particular order
Not in this particular order
Not in this particular order
Some of the problems we investigate
2 assessed exercises
Contributed material
More contributed material
Some reading material. We do NOT read ALL of this
Final exam 2010
