CS 1025 01 - Week #2 (September 4th and 6th)

Wednesday, September 4th

1. Shodor Data Flyer tool used to Plot Data.

2. Monty Hall is due by or on Friday.

3. Introduce the Monty Hall simulation exercise. MONTY HALL game Playing the Monty Hall game with a model. Your simulation experiement will try to figure out which strategy is best - sticking with your first choice or switching to the other door.

4. Adobe Flash Bouncing Ball for comparing Ease In and Ease Out and no easing...

5. Microsoft Excel slope for Classic Tween without Ease In and with Ease In.

Friday, September 6th

1. Today's example (and more for Monday) EVEN and ODD turtles, Sliders and Buttons. the ifelse (condition) [EVEN turtles actions] [ODD turtles actions], REMAINDER and WHO numbers.

2. RETURN to Day #1 example: Review of the NetLogo example of airplanes flying and fish swimming. How is NetLogo able to do CIRCLES??? Be sure to try out the SLIDERS and all 3 BUTTONS. From SQUARES to PENTAGONS to OCTAGONS to CIRCLES.

   Even and Odd turtles become Fish and Airplanes. Also, see all of the default shapes for turtles. FlyFishing.html NetLogo example to play with.

3. Another forest FIRE model available from SHODOR.

4. Shodor Data Flyer tool used to Plot Data. We will plot some Forest Fire simulation output again during the first week of class. This tool is much simpler to use than SPSS and Excel!

5. Read Decentralization and Agents pages from Turtles, Termites, and Traffic Jams to prepare for week #3 class discussion.