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Re: New Class: Building a search Engine

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Post by devans » Mon, Jan 23, 2012, 1:59 PM UTC

plinkplonk wrote: post #10

devans wrote: post #5

Earlier quoted context omitted.

The course will use Python. There will be more detailed information posted about the course soon, but I'll try to answer any questions you have here.

"but I'll try to answer any questions you have here." ok so here is a question. How do you plan to let people online actually program a robotic car? (More likely) Do you plan to have some kind of simulated environment? Make hardware accessible through the web? actually run student programs on hardware (and send results back to students)? Make datasets from actual car sensors available? I am just wondering about the s…

The robotic car class is a separate class, so I'm not able to answer all the questions about that one. (I am pretty sure, though, we won't be able to actually send people physical robotic cars! There will be a simulated environment, but it will use real data.)

Re: New Class: Building a search Engine

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Post by plinkplonk » Mon, Jan 23, 2012, 2:00 PM UTC

devans wrote: post #11

plinkplonk wrote: post #10

Earlier quoted context omitted.

"but I'll try to answer any questions you have here." ok so here is a question. How do you plan to let people online actually program a robotic car? (More likely) Do you plan to have some kind of simulated environment? Make hardware accessible through the web? actually run student programs on hardware (and send results back to students)? Make datasets from actual car sensors available? I am just wondering about the s…

The robotic car class is a separate class, so I'm not able to answer all the questions about that one. (I am pretty sure, though, we won't be able to actually send people physical robotic cars! There will be a simulated environment, but it will use real data.)

"The robotic car class is a separate class, so I'm not able to answer all the questions about that one"

Oops. Sorry about that. My mistake :). Hopefully someone from the "robotic car" class will pop in.

Re: New Class: Building a search Engine

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Post by exim » Mon, Jan 23, 2012, 4:59 PM UTC

devans wrote: post #5

matale wrote: post #3

Why do none of these classes ever seem to provide enough information about the actual content? For example what programming language will be used in this class?

The course will use Python. There will be more detailed information posted about the course soon, but I'll try to answer any questions you have here.

Not relevant to your course, but do you know if it is planned to put other courses, like Compilers, Programming Languages Theory, Symbolic AI and maybe also Operating Systems, in the near future?

Re: New Class: Building a search Engine

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Post by devans » Tue, Jan 24, 2012, 1:43 AM UTC

exim wrote: post #13

devans wrote: post #5

Earlier quoted context omitted.

The course will use Python. There will be more detailed information posted about the course soon, but I'll try to answer any questions you have here.

Not relevant to your course, but do you know if it is planned to put other courses, like Compilers, Programming Languages Theory, Symbolic AI and maybe also Operating Systems, in the near future?

Yes, there are plans to develop enough courses to cover all the major topics that would be part of a good university CS degree (although not always following the traditional structure of these courses), but it will be a while before more courses are launched.

Re: New Class: Building a search Engine

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Post by exim » Sat, Jan 28, 2012, 6:21 PM UTC

devans wrote: post #5

matale wrote: post #3

Why do none of these classes ever seem to provide enough information about the actual content? For example what programming language will be used in this class?

The course will use Python. There will be more detailed information posted about the course soon, but I'll try to answer any questions you have here.

Could you please point me to the reading list? Also, it would be great if you put course notes text besides videos.