POL SCI 209-1 Programming for Political Scientists

1/20/99


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POL SCI 209-1 Programming for Political Scientists

First session

Course goals

Requirements

Readings and software

Agent-based computational modeling

Bottom up modeling

Complex Adaptive Systems

Programming languages

Program statements

Functions

Programming process

Object Oriented Programming

Interface vs. implementation

The three principles of OOP

Basic facts

History of Swarm

The Swarms

The recursive structure of Swarms

A Swarm as a virtual computer

Swarm’s main features

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The Probes

Probes and the GUI

Probes without a GUI

The Graphical User Interface

Feeding data to the GUI widgets

Managing memory in Swarms

The three-step programming rocket

Where to find help

Author: Benedikt Stefansson

Email: cederman@ucla.edu

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