In the midst of all the gist, dont forget the National Youth Conference with Pastor Chris coming up Friday, Saturday 23rd and 24th February at national stadium.
Try not to miss it.
It is worth it.
By the way, I appreciate the excellence the guy represents.
Enough of mediocrity!!!

@IG, with regards to neural networks, I would recommend MATLAB's neural network toolbox for anyone with a critical project.

It comes with good documentation in pdf format. With the toolbox, learning is fast and re-work is reduced (you don't have to build everything from scratch).

For newbies to genetic or evolutionary programming, it a heuristic approach that especially usefully in solving problems with high computational complexity e.g. nondeterministic polynomial time hard (NP hard) problems and in many other types of problems - time varying, highly constrained etc.

The basic concept is to maintain (in computer memory!) a population of potential solutions and perform operations like crossover, mutation, variation and of course selection over a number of generations; all the while evaluating each sucessive population for the overall best. There is not predertermined routine for any problem. It is left to your imagination and ingenuity. Your skill can develop if you study relevant literature and practise.

IG,
I would suggest you use MATLAB instead, it comes with a neural network toolbox.
That will enable you focus on the essentials and speed up your project execution.

Alright, what was the thesis about? I have worked on the N-Queen problem, Traffic flow optimization, knapsack resource allocation etc.
If you have any questions, don't hesitate to ask.

Anybody interested in genetic/evolutionary algorithms, general heuristics as well as neural networks and fuzzy logic?