Last year I got to take a course at RPI in GA's, where we used the Mitchell book. It is a great introduction to the field. We had several practial and fun programming assignments using GALib, a very complete C++ library implementing almost everything described in Mitchel's book. If you're looking for what else is happening in the field, in particular evolutionary computation, I would suggest John Holland's From Chaos To Order.
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Last year I got to take a course at RPI in GA's, where we used the Mitchell book. It is a great introduction to the field. We had several practial and fun programming assignments using GALib, a very complete C++ library implementing almost everything described in Mitchel's book. If you're looking for what else is happening in the field, in particular evolutionary computation, I would suggest John Holland's From Chaos To Order.