EDIT: I just looked through the table of contents again, and it does actually have useful topics in it. I was so scarred by my godawful, incredibly academic, c

EDIT: I just looked through the table of contents again, and it does actually have useful topics in it. I was so scarred by my godawful, incredibly academic, college AI course that I only remembered the bullshit that we actually covered in that course. Literally nothing in the course was worth wasting my time on, and it looks like we went purposefully around anything that might have been relevant or interesting. It's baffling to me that two of the worst three computer science courses I took were AI and Algorithms & Data Structures. Both had mindbogglingly abstract, mathematically-oriented profs, who spent every lecture transcribing proofs from the textbook onto the blackboard. How do you teach a course on these subjects and have no assignments that involve writing code? This is at the place where BASIC was created, for chrissakes.