Programming tutorial for "Models in higher brain functions" in 2008

Here you will find all the material for the programing tutorial. The tutorial takes place Monday 3:30 - 5:30 pm c.t. (so we start at 3:45 pm and end at 5:15 pm) in the upper computer pool in the BCCN.

The solutions to the problem sets must be written in Python. If you are new to Python take a look at my Python introductory page. The code should follow the standard coding conventions. I will not even look at exercise solutions that deviate from this standard without good reason. I highly recommend you to read Code Like a Pythonista: Idiomatic Python, where the coding conventions are nicely wrapped up. Solutions are only accepted if they are well structured (code that "just works" will not be sufficient...).

Problem Sets

• Problem Set 1 - PCA
• Problem Set 2 - Neural Fields
• Problem Set 3 - SOM
• Problem Set 4 - SFA
• Problem Set 5 - Hopfield net

Course Topics

The plan is to present some advanced programming methods in the tutorial, some of which will then be used in the exercises (marked with a star in the list below). The current topic selection is:

• Object oriented programming* (21.4.08)
• unit testing* (28.4.08)
• Design patterns*
• GUIs with wxWidgets and XRC
• The Eclipse IDE
• Version control with Subversion (16.6.08)