Teaching CP in Scotland 02/09/2010. - how you attract students to your CP course - how do you keep...
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- 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
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