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COMP3411-COMP9814: Aritificial Intelligence

COMP3411-COMP9814: Aritificial Intelligence

University
University of New South Wales
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4 years ago

Assessment
The assessment structure before COVID-19 hit was:
- 2 assignments followed by a final exam.

During the 20T1 session, COMP3411 had 3 assignments, each of which was weighted 33% of the final grade.
C O M P3411
Prerequisite is COMP2521 or COMP9024.
C O M P9814
Prerequisite is COMP9024.
Comments
For what it was worth, COMP3411 was a very enjoyable with very little commitment throughout the term. It is required by all computer science students specialising in Artificial Intelligence and I felt as though Claude did the best he could out of this situation with transitioning into online teaching.

He was very considerate and often asked the students what they wanted out of the course; the course itself, though, felt a bit dry as it felt like a brief overview of the main concepts found within Artificial Intelligence.
One of the big components within the course is the use of Prolog (
Contact Hours
5 hours.
- 2x 2 hour lectures.
- 1x 1 hour tutorial.
Difficulty
2/5.
Wasn't difficult; there weren't many theoretical problems throughout the term. The most difficult aspect of the course was getting used to coding in Prolog, which has very different syntax to what a student coming out of COMP2521 may feel.
Lecture Recordings?
Yep.
Lecturer(s)
Claude Sammut.
Notes / Materials Available
Mainly lecture notes and other readings on the textbooks located below; otherwise, lecture recordings were sufficient. Tutorial problems were theoretical by nature with very few problems being coding-related. The coding-related problems were mainly Prolog.
Overall Rating
3/5.
Textbook
None prescribed, but recommended reading for the course is:
- David L. Poole and Alan K. Mackworth Artificial Intelligence: Foundations of Computational Agents , 2nd Edition. [print] [digital]

Other textbooks that may prove useful:
- Stuart Russell and Peter Norvig, Artificial Intelligence: a Modern Approach, 3th Ed., Prentice Hall, 2010.
- Nils J. Nilsson, Artificial Intelligence: a New Synthesis, Morgan Kaufmann, 1998, ISBN 1-55860-467-7.
- Ivan Bratko, Prolog Programming for Artificial Intelligence, 4th Edition, Pearson, 2013.
Year & Trimester Of Completion
20T1
Your Mark / Grade
SY (cut that it's only SY/FL ;-;)

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