See Calendar and class summaries and examples link from http://www.cs.uni.edu/~jacobson/025 to link to this page.

Link to 2nd 6 weeks: 2nd5Wks025Fall2010.html is the October/November class calendar.

  

Computational Modeling and Simulation - Monday, Aug 23 till Friday, Sep 24th - Fall 2010
FIRST FIVE WEEKS - August/September - FALL 2010
SUNDAY MONDAY TUESDAY WEDNESDAY THURSDAY FRIDAY SATURDAY
Week 1 08/23   08/25   08/27  
What is your major? Who is taking this class? Majors and hometowns.

810:025 Class syllabus, PDF format.

  1. What types of things will we do in the class?
  2. VIP: Review of the introductory NetLogo turtle graphics commands (LOGO) that was taught on day one.
 

Day two demonstration: FlyFishing.html - Airplanes circling and Fish Swimming - learning NetLogo.
 

 

Review of the first week, with links to video tutorial review, link to DOWNLOAD NetLogo site, etc.

 

 Major Major Major was a character in Catch 22 and got promoted to Major by a computer with a sense of humor.
Week 2 08/30   09/01   09/03  
 
Projector did not project very well day.

Solution to the "Show the Output" group exercise will be provided here and in class soon.
Note: The group exercise was two questions from the Fall 2009 Final Exam.

NetLogo and textbook reading assignment
Homework HW #1 handed out today.

  1. Flying planes and swimming fish - be sure to READ down through the entire page BEFORE Friday's class!

  2. Afternoon Email note, 2:35 pm.

Remainder and ifelse examples - look at these two ahead of time:

Airplanes and fish (2-day selection using IFELSE and REMAINDER).
Two types of turtles!

3-way selection with Three types of turtles!

Email notes about EVEN and ODD turtles:
  1. One
  2. Two
  3. Three
Class/lab review... - NetLogo and the ifelse with remainder. 		STUDIO IT 1 - ITT 134 class is in 2nd floor lab.

FOURTEEN of the FIFTEEN FRIDAY classes are in STUDIO IT 2nd floor computer labs!

Email (Friday afternoon) followup to Friday morning class. More on Even and Odd turtles and Sept 10th HW.
Week 3 09/06   09/08   09/10  
  No Class today!

LABOR DAY national and UNI holiday - much needed day off! :-)

  

Flowcharts of ifelse (condition) [ THEN clause statements]

[ELSE clause statements] - review of the lecture and demonstration will be posted later (Thursday)

  

Studio IT 1 ITT 134 computer lab EVERY FRIDAY! 2nd floor of ITT.

More NetLogo to help with your homework, followed by simulating a bouncing ball and gravity in Adobe Flash.

 		  
Week 4 09/13   09/15   09/17  
 

Homework HW #1 due by 10 pm


Email attachments to: jacobson@cs.uni.edu

Flash ActionScript for Physics based animation and simulation.

SIMULATION: The Swinging Ball, Elastic Band model is fun to play and experiment with.
Week 5 09/20   09/22   09/24  
     
Week 6 09/27   09/29   10/01  
Predator/Prey modeling - NetLogo assignment due on Wednesday, October 6th: Bobcats and Rabbits, aka Lynx and Hares.       Various NetLogo ideas, including a Monitor and the PLOT user interface feature.
 
 
  
       

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