Cheating in a homework, term paper or exam will be punished.
If you want a glimpse of what AI is all about, read McCarthy

Here's another classic: How to do research at the MIT AI Lab

You must do these in groups of two. Basically, you come up with a programming idea or a book title and get my OK. I and the TA will be available for suggestions. For the book reviews, carefully state the position taken by the author that you've read. These statement should be formulated in your own words, explaining how you see what the author has said. Then you must evaluate the book. I'll provide you with a sample book review that you can study.
More on programming projects later.

Use both block comments in the beginning of the code and in-line comments to explain your reasoning clearly. Summarize your general way of attack to the problem and the data structures you use. Make sure that your program compiles correctly and that it gives the required output.

You must do these individually. Late homeworks get no credit. The TA won't accept submissions after 12 noon on the due date of a homework. Homeworks must be written using a decent document processing system. You may try the LaTeX article style and a 12 pt font. (Check out these useful TeX/LaTeX resources) Always spell-check your homeworks.

start                     goal

2 8 3                     1 2 3
1 6 4                     8 - 4
7 - 5                     7 6 5
 

The homework should take the form of a self-contained report. Do not forget to include screen dumps, etc.

N.B. Make sure that your game instance is not trivial (or more difficult than needed). The point of the homework is just to demonstrate that this can be done in propositional logic.

Here's then my offer: Anyone can submit, by 29 Nov, a new version of HW#2. These will then be re-evaluated. If you're happy with your current homework and believe that you've done it all by yourself, you don't have to submit anything. However, if you've copied stuff from others and/or submitted an incomplete homework, this is your chance to repair the damage.

Don't forget: Both the giver and the receiver are at fault in a cheating situation.

Needless to say, this is the last time I'll be so flexible and understanding with cheaters (cf. ADVICE above).