Re: Course on Swarm at UCLA

[karcich]

Dear Benedikt:

Is there any chance this course could be offered via some distance learning
arrangement?

Regards,

Rick

> 
> The UCLA Department of Political Science will be sponsoring an informal
> course/seminar on Swarm programming this Winter quarter (First day of
> UCLA Winter quarter is January 12th and last day of instruction is March
> 20th). The instructor will be yours truly. We are still putting final
> touches on the syllabus, and some details need to be finalized but
> tentative meeting times are Monday and Wednesday mornings 11:00-12:15
> (after the fifth week we will be meeting only on Wednesdays). Classroom
> is TBA.
> 
> The objective of the course is to help social science faculty and
> students
> that are interested in agent based modeling to get comfortable
> programming in C, introduce the fundamentals of Object Oriented
> Programming and the Swarm libraries.
> 
> Included is a rough outline of the course.  Please refer to the
> following
> web page for further information, which I will be updating with data
> such as
> seminar hours and location:
> 
>     http://cce.sscnet.ucla.edu/swarmcourse/syllabusW98.html
> 
> Anyone who is interested in Swarm is invited to attend. Feel free to
> distribute this information widely to people you know who might be
> interested. I would be happy to hear from those who are interested in
> attending the seminar so that we can better gauge the interest and plan
> accordingly.
> 
> Outline:
> 
> I.Week - Introduction to Swarm and overview of the course
>         1.Introduction and demonstration of Swarm capabilities.
>         2.Overview - programming tools and evolution of a simulation
> program.
> 
> II-IV Week - The C programming language
>         3.Basic data types and operators.
>         4.Control and data flow.
> 
>         5.Functions and program structure. Input and output.
>         6.Memory allocation and data (pointers and arrays).
> 
>         7.Memory allocation and data (cont).
>         8.Practical programming - the editor, compiler and debugger.
> 
> V. Week - Object Oriented Programming
>         9.Introduction to Object Oriented Programming.
>        10.Objective-C syntax.
> 
> VI. Week - Swarm: first steps
>        11.Evolving a simple model from basic C, to Objective-C to Swarm.
> 
> VII-VII.Week - The Swarm libraries
>        12.Structure of a Swarm program, schedules and collections.
>        13.Probe library and graphical output.
> 
> IX.-X Week - Swarm in practice
>        14.Case studies and  Implementations, e.g. Epstein and Axtell
>             (Sugarscape), Schelling's segregation model and Axelrod's
> culture model.
>        15.Adaptive Agents, implementation and practical problems. GAs,
> ANNs
>             Finite State Machines and other algorithms.
> 
> ------------------
> Benedikt Stefansson                 address@hidden
> Department of Economics, UCLA       Fax. (310) 825-9528
> Los Angeles, CA 90095-1477          Tel. (310) 825-4126
> 
> 
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