Notes

Note: Any pages are likely to be be edited again before or after we use them in class.

Programming

• Introduction to Python and IDLE
• Values, statements, variables, comments
• Functions
• Functions: an interlude
• Booleans, predicates, conditionals
• while loops
• Writing programs
• Sequences
• for loops
• Hints on defining functions
• Dictionaries
• Files
• Exception handling
• Variables revisited
• Recursion and evaluation revisited
• Classes and objects
• Inheritance
• GUIs
• Sequences revisited

Artificial intelligence/cognitive science

• Simple agents and what they need
• Reinforcement learning
• Evolutionary computation

© 2012. Indiana University and Michael Gasser. www.indiana.edu/~q320/notes.html 2012-01-25