CS 1025 01 - Week #7 (Feb 25, 27, 01)



Monday, February 25th


  1. The SHODOR Data Flyer tool: Plotting data and finding the best fitting function. Ordered pairs.

  2. Finding the SLOPE of a line given two points (x1, y1) and (x2, y2). The rise and the run and the slope m.

  3. Maya and Flash and ease in and ease out (easing) versus linear tangents. Modeling the Sun, Earth, and Moon rotations and orbits.


Wednesday, February 27th


  1. VIP: Assignment of reading from Turtles, Termites, and Traffic Jams and doing/exploring from NetLogo models library.
    Due on Monday, March 4th in class. Bring hard-copy to turn in. Hand-written Pen or Pencil is okay.

  2. For any right-triangle, the length of the hypotenuse is equal to the square root of the sums of the squares of the two legs. Classic example is the 3 by 4 by 5 side length triangle.
       2      2      2
      5   =  3   +  4     or   
    
     25  =   9   +  16   and squareRoot(9 + 16) = 5 
     
     If we create 8 ordered turtles,                  cro 8
        and want the 8 turtles to form a square, 
            how far do the ODD turtles need to move fd
                to form the FOUR CORNERS of the square?
    
     If the EVEN turtles move 6 units with fd 6?       ifelse remainder who 2 = 0
                                                       [
     If the EVEN turtles move 8 units with fd 8?          fd 6 (or fd 8 or fd DIST)
                                                       ]
     If the EVEN turtles move DIST, with fd DIST?      [
                 (Where DIST is a SLIDER)                 fd ???????
                                                       ]
    

Friday, March 1st

Meet in - S A B I N 102


  1. Adobe Flash and gravity

  2. Autodesk Maya and simulating Gravity.

TEST #1 ON MONDAY, March 11th...