AI programming exercises
A series of online AI programming exercises. For use in any AI course.Each step has: (a) a running online program to implement some AI concept, (b) a video introduction, (c) notes to explain the program, and: (d) exercises for students to do. Students can edit and run these programs in the browser, with no install.
These exercises are based on AI programs by Daniel Shiffman of The Coding Train and The Nature of Code. Ported with permission under MIT licence.
The exercises involve making modifications to a series of AI programs (called "Worlds" on Ancient Brain), including the following Worlds. Click images to run them.
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Created: 5 Jul 2019
Modified: 17 Sep 2023
Neural network to do character recognition from image database and from handwriting in real-time.
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Created: 2 May 2019
Modified: 17 Sep 2023
Genetic Algorithm to write the first line of Finnegans Wake.
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Created: 30 Apr 2019
Modified: 17 Sep 2023
Breadth-first search with a Force-directed graph.
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Created: 1 May 2019
Modified: 17 Sep 2023
"A Star" algorithm to find shortest path through maze.
Before you start: Do the Ancient Brain Tutorial
- Before you start, do the Ancient Brain Starter Tutorial. This shows you how to code on this site.
- All code is in JavaScript.
- These exercises use the P5 JavaScript graphics library.
- You can also warm up by doing the Introduction to Programming course (using JavaScript with P5).
Contents
- Binary tree
- Breadth-first search
- Breadth-first search (graphical)
- A* search
- Genetic Algorithm
- Genetic Algorithm for TSP
- Perceptron
- Neural network for XOR
- Character recognition neural network
Bonus World: Chat GPT
The following World calls the OpenAI API to talk to GPT-3.5.We do not have exercises for this World but you could think of some:
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By Starter user
Created: 18 Sep 2023
Modified: 3 Oct 2023
JavaScript page to chat with a GPT model. Calls OpenAI API. User needs to enter API key.
Credits
- These exercises are based on AI programs by Daniel Shiffman of The Coding Train and The Nature of Code.
- Source code originally from The Coding Train GitHub and The Nature of Code GitHub.
- Ported with permission under MIT licence. Extensively modified here by Ancient Brain.
Notes
- Code runs on the Ancient Brain platform. Students copy, edit and run the code in the browser, with no install.
- Students are given coding challenges in the notes.
- Teachers can run and examine student code in the browser, with no risk, and no install.
- These exercises have already been used in an M.Sc. course in AI.
- As always, use the Docs menu for help when coding on Ancient Brain.
Preview
As a preview, here is the video for the Genetic Algorithm exercise.Notes on videos
- The videos feature Dr. Mark Humphrys of Dublin City University. They were made originally for an M.Sc. course.
- They contain a few things that do not apply outside of the M.Sc. course. You will work it out.
- The videos may show an older version of the Ancient Brain site.
- Maximise video to see text and code clearly.
- Credit to Ideas Lab at NIDL at DCU for their superb video editing.
AI exercises, not an AI course
This is not a full AI course. It does not introduce you to AI theory, which would be a huge undertaking. To learn AI theory, you need to do a course elsewhere.Rather, this is a series of AI programming exercises that teachers and lecturers can use in AI courses, and that students can use to try out the AI theory they have learnt.