Differences in genetic algorithm and programming constraints?

Question

I hope someone sheds some light on this topic. If this is accidentally considered a stupid question, I will gladly delete this question right away.

I am developing a course schedule system, and while researching, I came across GA and Constraint Programming as approaches to solving my problem. However, I did not quite understand the differences between them and what are the advantages of one over the other. I hope someone explains this to me in an unprofessional term or directs me to a site with this topic.

Thanks in advance!

Sincerely.

Answer 1

This is how I see the family of optimization algorithms:

• Exact methods: brute force, branch and bound
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