CS 232 Exam 1 Coverage

The first midterm exam is a take-home exam that will be distributed at the end of class on Friday, October 13, and due at the beginning of class on Tuesday, October 19. The exam will be open book/open notes, and will cover the material presented in class through Friday, October 6. In particular, the following material will be covered:

Search methods: depth-first, breadth-first, hill-climbing, best-first, branch & bound, branch & bound with estimate of distance to goal, A*, adverserial search, minimax procedure with alpha-beta pruning

Knowledge-Based Expert Systems: rule-based, model-based and case-based reasoning, forward and backward chaining

Common LISP: all of the material presented in the Introduction to Common LISP, except for the do function for constructing general loops, and arrays

You should review the reading material that is listed on the course schedule page, and the material in Assignments 1-4, which included Labs 1-5 (the solutions for Assignment 4 will be posted on the weekend of the exam).

The exam will include programming problems, paper and pencil exercises, and short-answer questions on the above material. There will be an opportunity to review the exam material during the lab classes on Oct. 11 and 12, so please try to look through the material in advance so that you can ask questions during lab.