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 toolkit 3.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/stuff 2. introduce a new problem 3. model & solve the problem
1 st week
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