My Students Are Adding To An Online Textbook

My teaching philosophy is not to waste student time. The last two times I taught my undergrad AI class I have instructed them to contribute to the online AI textbook at Wikibooks.org.

They had to describe a search method in AI. Now most of the main methods are covered. With hope, in ten years or so I won't even need them to buy a textbook.

Below are some of the wikibook chapters my students have made. Note that since anyone can edit the wikibook, they might have been changed since I posted this. 

A*

http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Artificial_Intelligence/Search/Heuristic_search/Astar_Search

Beam Search

http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Artificial_Intelligence/Search/Heuristic_search/Beam_search

Best-First Search

http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Artificial_Intelligence/Search/Heuristic_search/Best-first_search

 

Bidirectional Search

http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Artificial_Intelligence/Search/Heuristic_search/Bidirectional_Search

Breadth-First Search

http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Artificial_Intelligence/Search/Exhaustive_search/Breadth-first_search

 

Dijkstra's Algorithm

http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Artificial_Intelligence/Search/Dijkstra's_Algorithm

 

Finite State Automata

http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Artificial_Intelligence/Search/Exhaustive_search/Finite_state_automata

 

Hill Climbing

http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Artificial_Intelligence/Search/Iterative_Improvement/Hill_Climbing

 

Minimax Search

http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Artificial_Intelligence/Search/Heuristic_search/Minimax_Search

 

Recommender Systems

http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Artificial_Intelligence/Search/Recommender_Systems