Contents

• Existing knowledge of ...
  • Programming?
  • Python?
  • Netlogo?
  • Graphics programming?
  • Implementing algorithms?
  • Bio-inspired/alife/multi-agent programming?
  
  
• To do the (five) lab assignments this semester, we will need to ...
  • Implement the appropriate biologically-inspired algorithms
    (examples: genetic algorithms, fractals, ant-colony inspired algorithms, etc.)
  • Support them with the approriate data-structures
    (examples: genomes & mutation operators, spatial virtual worlds, data points & labels, etc.)
  • Handle I/O to algorithms
    (get user parameters, display graphics, read/write files, etc.)
    
    
  • Finally, the logistics: submit to Oncourse
  
  
  
• Today, we will cover:
  • Two ways of doing graphics in Python:
    • turtle module - Logo-type Turtle graphics for python
    • Pygame - Python game programming module
  • Some simple algorithms to demonstrate these abilities:
    • Koch curve / snowflake (subset of L-systems): koch.py.txt
    • Game of life (cellular automata): life.py.txt
  
  
  
• Questions?