Exam 2: week 7 - present

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GENERAL TOPICS:

Formal systems
  - know what they are
  - MIU.py (week 7)

Turing Machines
  - know what they are
  - be able to trace through a simple TM program by hand
  - be able to design a (very) simple TM program to do something
  - know what "busy beaver" TMs are
  - know what the Halting Problem is and why it is important
  - understand the basic outline of the Halting Problem argument
  - know what Universal Turing Machines are and why they are important
  - UTM.py (week 8)
  - readings:
     * Proof or Consequences (Casti)

Symbolic models
  - know what they are
  - physical symbol system hypothesis
  - readings:
     * From Micro-Worlds to Knowledge Representation (Dreyfus)
     * Computer Science as Empirical Inquiry (Newell & Simon)

Chinese Room thought experiment
  - understand the basic outline of the argument
  - readings:
     * Minds, Brains, and Programs (Searle)
     * A Conversation With Einstein's Brain (Hofstadter)

Connectionist models
  - know what they are
  - Jets and Sharks memory model
  - readings:
     * The Appeal of PDP (McClelland, Rumelhart, Hinton)

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PROGRAMMING TOPICS:

Object-oriented programming
  - using objects
  - defining classes
  - defining methods

Manipulating lists
  - referencing values in lists
  - storing values in lists
  - appending values to lists
  - example: UTM.py

File processing
  - opening and closing files
  - using readlines
  - example: UTM.py