Undergraduate Course: AI Large Practical (INFR09018)
Course Outline
| School | School of Informatics | 
College | College of Science and Engineering | 
 
| Credit level (Normal year taken) | SCQF Level 9 (Year 3 Undergraduate) | 
Availability | Available to all students | 
 
| SCQF Credits | 10 | 
ECTS Credits | 5 | 
 
 
| Summary | The AI Large Practical gives students the experience of building a moderately large system, exemplifying a proposed solution to some AI problem. It also gives experience in running experiments, and reporting and analysing results. 
 
Students will have experience in: 
- Designing a well structured system 
- Implementing such a system 
- Designing and running experiments 
- Reporting and analysing results 
 
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| Course description | 
    
    -  Gentle introduction to the issues and requirements of the more demanding fourth-year project. 
- Experience of reading published papers and identifying their essential content. 
- Exercise of reporting on modest pieces of scientific work: students have to explain what they did, and why, and what conclusions they reached, and why, and they have to do this clearly and convincingly. 
- Experience of writing programs to investigate specific questions: students must write well-structured, well-documented programs because they too are acts of scientific communication. 
 
Relevant QAA Computing Curriculum Sections:  Artificial Intelligence  
    
    
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Information for Visiting Students 
| Pre-requisites | None | 
 
		| High Demand Course? | 
		Yes | 
     
 
Course Delivery Information
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| Academic year 2015/16, Not available to visiting students (SS1) 
  
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Quota:  40 | 
 
| Course Start | 
Semester 1 | 
 
Timetable  | 
	
Timetable | 
| Learning and Teaching activities (Further Info) | 
 
 Total Hours:
100
(
 Lecture Hours 10,
 Supervised Practical/Workshop/Studio Hours 5,
 Feedback/Feedforward Hours 10,
 Programme Level Learning and Teaching Hours 2,
Directed Learning and Independent Learning Hours
73 )
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| Assessment (Further Info) | 
 
  Written Exam
0 %,
Coursework
100 %,
Practical Exam
0 %
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| Additional Information (Assessment) | 
Assessment 
No formal written examination; the assessment is based on practical work and a written report submitted at the end of the project period. 
 
You should expect to spend approximately 52 hours on the coursework for this course. | 
 
| Feedback | 
Not entered | 
 
| No Exam Information | 
 
Learning Outcomes 
    On completion of this course, the student will be able to:
    
        - Design and implement a complex system.
 - Consider alternative designs, both for internal properties, and as ways of tackling a given problem.
 - Read technical papers, and explain their relevance to the chosen approach.
 - Design and carry out appropriate experiments, and explain the methodology involved.
 - Write a scholarly report, suitably structured and with supporting evidence.
 
     
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Contacts 
| Course organiser | Mr Stuart Anderson 
Tel: (0131 6)50 5191 
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Course secretary | Miss Beth Muir 
Tel: (0131 6)51 7607 
Email:  | 
   
 
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