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Computer Simulations and Interactive Media is a course on design and prototyping. This course will introduce students to the concepts of web app development, game design, and artificial intelligence through basic programming and mathematics. The course will provide a general overview of simulations, interactivity, and prototyping, with emphasis on culture, history, real world practices, and applications. Students will journal their explorations, develop and build a final team project, and present their projects via live demo. After the course, each student will have their own online design and programming portfolio.
Instructor: Sherol Chen
E-Mail: sherolchen@gmail.com
Course Website: spcs.sherolchen.com
Meeting Time: 9 am - 11:30 am MTWRF
Class Room: 200-205 Main Quad
Teaching Assistants
Peter Farejowicz
Julie Ni
Assignments/Projects
Math Quiz
Computer History IF
Lock IF
Seurat
Visual Sort
Bouncing Balls - Particles and Gravity
Traveling Sales Mousey
A* is for Alan
Game AI - Tic Tac Toe, Black Jack, or Rock Paper Scissors
Cellular Automata
Arduino
Final Project
Texts and Materials
Course Topics
Topics and Schedule are subject to change
| Lecture | Assignment | Reading |
Tue | Introduction and Setup | Wordpress and Github signup, JS Math Quiz | Cookbook ch 1 |
Wed | History and Foundations of Computing | JS Interactive Fiction | Cookbook ch 2 |
Thr | Algorithms and Data Structures | Twine IF, Processing, JS Mole Game | Cookbook ch 3 |
Fri | Guest Speaker, Finite State Machines | Field Trip: Tech Museum | |
Weekend | | | |
Mon | AI, Searching, Sorting, Animations | Processing Sort, JS Tile Game | Turing Paper, Cookbook ch 4 |
Tue | Graphs, Search | Processing TSP, JS Platformer | Design Book, Cookbook ch 5 |
Wed | Field Trip: Exploratorium | Field Trip: Exploratorium | |
Thr | OOP and A* | Processing A*, JS Fighter | Gates Letter, Cookbook ch 6 |
Fri | Logic and Arduino, Guest Speaker | Arduino | |
Weekend | | | |
Mon | Game Theory and Game Studies | Processing Tic Tac Toe, JS Shooter | Cookbook ch 7 |
Tue | Cellular Automata | Processing CA, JS FPS | Cookbook ch 8 |
Wed | Field Trip: Computer History Museum | Final Project, JS RPG | Cookbook ch 9 |
Thr | Final Projects, Guest Speaker | Guest Speaker, Final Projects | |
Fri | Final Project Presentations | Final Project Presentations | |
Assignments
Week 1
Day 1 - Prime Numbers, Permutations, Combinations, Internet, Networks, Github, Wordpress, Command-Line Arguments, Domain Name,
DNS, Hosting, Sieve of Eratosthenes, Top Level Domain, Client Side, Server Side
Day 2 - History, Bit Manipulation, Base Conversion, Parameters, Functions, Assembler, Microprocessor, Microcontroller, IDE, Variables, For-Loop, Game-Loop/Draw-Loop, Machine Language, Boolean, Hexadecimal, Octal, Logic Error, Syntax Error, Canvas, Datatypes
Day 3 - Type Errors, Data Structures, Arrays, Stacks, Linked Lists, Queues, Binary Trees, Graphs, Bit Manipulation, Operator, Operand, Bit Shifting, Dynamic Typed Language, Operator Overloading
Day 4 - Guest Speaker, Finite State Machines
Week 2
Day 5 - Turing Test, Dartmouth Conference, AI, Loebner, Cleverbot, Eliza Effect, Imitation Game, Selection, Insertion, Bubble, Binary Search, Binary Search Tree, Processing.js, Big-O, Animations
Day 6 - Prototypes, Traveling Sales Person, Adjacency Matrix, Dijkstra's Algorithm, Depth First Search, Breadth First Search, Greedy Algorithm, Brute Force Algorithm, NP Complete, Polynomial Time, Non-Polynomial Time, Directed/Undirected Graph, Weighted/Unweighted Graph
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Day 8 - OOP, Abstraction, Polymorphism, Inheritance, Encapsulation, Greedy Best-First Search, A*, Flood Filling, Internships, Methods, Classes, Objects, Heuristics, Tree Search, Prototypes
Day 9 - Circuits, kD Trees, Arduino, Ohm's Law, Logic Gates, Guest Speaker
Week 3
Day 10 - Game Design, Game Theory, Game Studies, Game Trees, Alternate Reality Game, Hash Tables, Hash Functions, Ludus Paida Narrative, Ludology Narratology Debate, Game AI, Decision Trees, Concept Net, Implication, Demorgans Law, Double Implication (iff)
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Research Journals
In general, make your links clickable! Put at least 1 photo on every page/post. PAGES and POSTS are NOT THE SAME!
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