Assignments

• textbook references are to Thomas Dean, James Allen, and Yiannis Aloimonos, Artificial Intelligence: Theory and Practice, Benjamin/Cummings Publishing Company, Inc., 1995;
• written assignments may be done collaboratively;
• programming assignments and projects are to be done individually -- collaboration is not allowed.

Submitting Programs For This Course: In turning in any programs for the course, please follow these directions:

1. The first three lines of any LISP program should be comments containing your name, your mailbox number, and an identification of assignment being solved. For example:

   
       ;;; Henry M. Walker
       ;;; Box Y-06
       ;;; Assignment for Wednesday, January 28
   

   Also, a comment is needed for every procedure, stating in English what that procedure is supposed to do.

2. Obtain a listing of your program and a record of relevant test runs using the submit command:
   • Within a dtterm window (before running LISP), begin recording session with the statement
     
     submit filename
     
     where filename is the name of the file in which you want the session stored.
   • Print a copy of your LISP definitions with the command
     
     cat LISP-file.ss
     
     where LISP-file.ss is the name of the file containing your LISP program. If your work involves several files, list all of them with the cat command.
   • Run LISP as usual, with the acl command.
   • Load file LISP-file.ss with the load command.
   • Run appropriate test cases to check the correctness of your program.
   • Stop LISP with <Ctrl/D> as before.
   • Stop recording by typing <Ctrl/D> one more time.
   • Print the record of your session by typing
     
     print filename

3. Either write on your printout or include a separate statement that argues why your program is correct, based upon the evidence from your test runs.

This document is available on the World Wide Web as

http://www.math.grin.edu/~walker/courses/261/assignments.html