KG
7 nov. 2020
Excellent course! I learned a lot. Although the assignments were sometimes hard to fathom, and its online nature mean getting hints was difficult, there's enough there to help get through.
BO
26 juil. 2019
Thank you so much for the course. I had to fight my coding habits, programming CP models is quite different from the traditional programming I'm, and it could even be more fun!
par Dominik T
•17 févr. 2018
Terrific course
par Viet H N
•10 sept. 2021
Useful course
par Martin J
•22 févr. 2020
so very good
par Johan F M G
•3 août 2020
I loved
par Olivier M
•17 mai 2020
Awesome
par breezef
•28 sept. 2019
上手有点难h
par Kenny T
•14 févr. 2017
C
par Paul T
•11 avr. 2020
MiniZinc is an extraordinarily useful tool, and I definitely feel I learned a great deal here that will be hugely useful in countless situations in the future. I'm also definitely moving on to the next course in Advanced Modeling ASAP. And while I found most of the general concepts fairly straightforward (I've solved most of these sorts of problems before in Excel Solver in some form or another), I was also frustrated by large gaps between the content taught in each section and the workshops at the end of that section (things I learned in each set of videos were often totally irrelevant to the later workshops and assignments), unnecessarily vague variable names (such as lower-case 'l' which looks just like the number '1' and is used in several examples), lack of downloadable example files to support the various videos, a fairly obtuse help system in MiniZinc itself that makes looking up keywords fairly difficult, sudden jumps in difficulty between the sections, too much time spent on topics irrelevant to the course (such as formatting of "output" statements, which takes the whole second half of the video for the week 4 workshop), and lots of little discrepancies between the PDF files for the various workshops and assignments and the actual workshops and assignments. This is a good course but would be a stellar one with a bit more polish to the MiniZinc help system, more polished examples, a better learning curve, and downloadable MiniZinc samples to accompany each video (really, just providing the MiniZinc files that are shown in the videos, along with a bit of reasonable sample data, would help a lot here).
par Ollie D
•23 avr. 2022
Pretty good overall. The teaching is a bit boring at times but it's not too bad. I was also hoping that using constraint modeling means you don't have to worry about efficiency. Sadly this course spent a lot of time focusing on efficiency issues. I guess solvers are not clever enough to be able to reframe a set of constraints in a more efficient way, so the user apparently needs to remember things like to convert a "not(and)" into an "or" and other tricks.
par Kittiphon P
•24 juin 2018
The stories and examples used in the course are great and creative. I would like to thank both professors and all TAs for creating wonderful online course and for their hard work. However, some programming assignments are too tedious with too much constraints, like PA 3.
par GUILLAUME P
•17 févr. 2020
Super interesting. Would be nice to have corrections of the assignment too but overall, super fun.
The pdf description are sometimes unclea (constraints are sometimes put in the data description.)
par Shambo R C
•29 mai 2019
great course for beginners and those who are looking for applications of optimisation. the only problem is it forces you to work with minizinc and may consume extra time than expected
par Andrew G
•20 oct. 2021
Great course. Is it "basic" though? It probably helps to have a good background in mathematical modeling , coding and optimization, this moves pretty fast. Heading to Course #2
par Michael M
•24 févr. 2019
Challenging programming assignments and helpful workshops. Good video material. Hoped to have some more real world examples, rather than just fable-based examples.
par Bhavik J
•11 juil. 2020
A classic combination of the story mode pitched in learning. I wish that the topics covered in the course were more elaborated.
par Esteban C d V
•6 mai 2017
Very interesting, but I miss some theory explaining how the optimizations work behind.
par J.S. P
•6 sept. 2020
Great course. Would absolutely recommend.
par Leo
•20 juin 2019
Novel, creative and interesting
par Krunal P
•28 janv. 2017
Good Assignments.
par Lucas P M
•7 janv. 2022
The problem-based approach is very interesting and the course is very practical. However, it has no theoretical content, even superficial, to assess the best way to model. Some assignments have bugs or incomplete information that make it difficult to get good grades.
par Can K
•6 févr. 2018
Should be called "Minizinc tutorial". The exercises are easy to pass, but the feedback on them are unhelpful, "You can have a better objective function" does not mean anything if you don't say which part of the model should the person improve.