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Session 1, 2012

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2012 Semester 1 Announcements

• 9 June 2012: Wayne's pre-exam consultation time is 2-4pm Tuesday 12 June.

• 7 June 2012: Reminder: Bill's pre-exam consultation times are:

  Thursday 7 June	2pm-4pm	K17-405
  Tuesday 12 June	10am-12noon	K17-405

  Email queries any time.

• 22 May 2012: Here is the link to the recording of last night's lecture, starting from about 7pm.

  Bill has had to move his consultation times for weeks 12 and 13. The new times are:

  • Week 12: 12-1pm Thu (in room K17-405 as usual)
  • Week 13: 3-4pm Thu (in room K17-405 as usual)

• 15 May 2012: Here is the link to the recording of last night's lecture.

• 9 May 2012: Mysteriously, the link to Monday night's lecture did not get emailed to me until just now (Wednesday) - usually it shows up half an hour or so after end of the lecture. :-( Here is the link.

• 30 Apr 2012: tonight's lecture recording is available here.

  The third assignment is now available for those who want to get an early look at it - see link at left. You are now in a position to do the syntax part of it, but the semantic part has not yet been described in lectures.

  Unfortunately Bill will not be able to be available for consultation in person this week. You can still email him with any queries (which is what most people do anyway!)

• 16 Apr 2012: Wayne Wobcke's consultation will be from 4-5pm today.

• 29 Mar 2012: The proof of the optimality of the A* search method has been updated (slide 18 of that lecture).

• 19 Mar 2012: tonight's lecture will be by Bill, and the topic will be Machine Learning. See lecture notes link at left if you want to look at or print this topic.

• 16 Mar 2012: It has been pointed out to me that there were two different due dates for the prolog assignment in two different places on the class web site. They are now consistent: the correct due date/time is 11.55pm on 29 March 2012 (in week 5).

• 15 Mar 2012: Question 3 of the prolog assignment spec has been modified. It used to say that you should write a predicate sqrt_table(N, M, Result) that binds Result to the list of pairs consisting of a number and its square root, from N down to M, where N and M are natural numbers, and N > M. The new version changes N > M to N >= M.

• 6 Mar 2012: the Lectopia recording of last night's lecture is now available here.

• To learn how to use your CSE computing account, and related matters, go to http://www.csesoc.unsw.edu.au/wiki/Tech/Lab0/Worksheet and work your way through lab0. If you are a returning student, you probably don't need to worry about this, and if you are enrolled in COMP9021 as well as COMP9414/9814, you will be doing it as part of COMP9021, but please make sure that you have at least activated your account before you come to your first COMP9414/9814 lab. If you do work your way through lab0, and want to try out assignment submission with the give command, do this:
  • use a text editor (like gedit) to create a file called lab0.pl
  • put any valid piece of Prolog code into your lab0.pl
  • check that it is syntactically correct by loading it into Prolog using the command prolog -qs lab0.pl and checking for error or warning messages.
  • now do the give command: give cs9414 lab0 lab0.pl
    - say "cs9414" even if you're enrolled for COMP9814.
  • make sure that your lab0 is accepted: the last line printed before the next Linux prompt should be "Submission accepted"
  • give only works on a CSE Linux computer, e.g. in a CSE laboratory, or logged in remotely to a CSE computer, e.g. from home, via putty, ssh, etc.
  There are no marks for submitting lab0. Its purpose is to help you get used to our assignment submission system.

• 27 Feb 2012: the Lectopia recording of tonight's lecture is now available at http://lectopia.telt.unsw.edu.au/lectopia/lectopia.lasso?ut=1185&id=131358.

• 11 Dec 2011: For O-week 2012, your COMP9414 or COMP9814 homework is to read the Course Introduction - there is a link to it at left. It is relatively long, but you should make sure you look at every section. Particularly important parts are the sections on Course Details (including the difference between COMP9414 and COMP9814), Assessment, the Course Schedule, and the Resources for Students. All of these are linked at the top of the course intro web page.

• Five hours in a row??: If you check the timetable for COMP9414, you will find that it seems to say that some of the lab class options run from 4-6pm followed by lectures from 6-9pm: five hours in a row, and no time for dinner!
   
  The reality is that, even though the UNSW enrolment system forces you to choose a lab class, the COMP9414/9814 lab classes are voluntary. Many students who choose a 4-6 lab attend from 4 to around 5.30pm, and then go off for a break and dinner, before the lectures, and this is fine. Others, who might have a daytime job, attend from 5-6pm, presumably having eaten before arriving, and then go on to the lectures. If you actually wish to attend for the full two hours, or almost the full two hours, then that's fine (but unfortunately eating in the labs is not allowed). If you think you can manage without any lab classes, that choice is open to you, too, though it might be wise to attend at least the first lab class to find out if they are going to help you.
   
  The lab classes start in week 2, and run for 4 weeks, finishing in week 5. They are there to help you learn the Prolog programming language, which is introduced in weeks 1 and 2. You will need to write your three assignments in Prolog, so you do need to be on top of it.

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