Lecture Schedule and Readings

The following schedule is tentative!

Tu Aug 25 About this course and Text: Introduction to Ojbects [Slides (PDF)]

Th Aug 27 Text: Everything is an Object [Slides (PDF)]

Tu Sept 1 Modeling, epidemics, highway networks, digital logic [Slides (PDF)]

Th Sept 3 Simulation methods [Slides (PDF)]

Tu Sept 8 Text: Operators, Controlling Execution [Slides (PDF)] [Java Code]

Th Sept 10 Incremental development [Slides (PDF)] [Java Code]

Tu Sept 15 Text: Initialization and Cleanup [Java Code]

Th Sept 17 Text: Access Control, Reusing Classes [Java Code]

Tu Sept 22 Text: Polymorphism, Creating Subclasses [Bash Script]

Th Sept 24 Constructors, Factories [Java Code]

Tu Sept 29 Scanners

Th Oct 1 Text: Interfaces & Inner Classes (p. 311) Wasted Computation

Tu Oct 6 Text: Holding Objects (p. 389) [Java Code] [Succot IV, Jewish]

Th Oct 8 Lambda Expressions in Java [Java Code] [Succot VI, Jewish]

Tu Oct 13 Discrete Event Simulation and the Pending Event Set

Th Oct 15 Building a simulation [Java Code]

Tu Oct 20 Yet More building a simulation and randomness [Java Code]

Th Oct 22 And Even More building a simulation [Java Code]

Tu Oct 27 More simulation: stop lights [Java Code]

Th Oct 29 Abuse of Class Hierarchy, Breaking Up the Source File, Javadoc [Java .shar file]

Tu Nov 3 -- no class except makeup for AAA missed on Oct 29 --

Th Nov 5 Simulation Frameworks and Program Transformations

Tu Nov 10 Alternative Simulation Frameworks [Java .shar file] [just the new Framework]

Th Nov 12 More on README files [README.md]

Tu Nov 17 Too many files! Makefiles [a Makefile]

Th nov 19 Lazyness [Java code]

--- Thanksgiving Break ---

Tu Dec 1 Eliminating circular dependencies [Java .shar file]

Th Dec 3 Process-Oriented Simulation, Interprocess Interaction

Tu Dec 8 Virtual Machines and VM Hierarchies

Th Dec 10 Operating Systems, Networks and Cookies. [Hanukkah I, Jewish] [the end]