Computational Modeling
Fall 2008

For today, you should have:

1) read Chapter 2 of your swappy book and written a summary/commentary

2) continued work in Chapter 1 of my book

3) written at least something in your book


Today:

1) graph questions?

2) visits


For next time you should:

1) read Chapter 3 of your swappy book, write summary/commentary

2) continue work in Chapter 1 of my book

   Exercise 1.6, 1.7 for sure

   Exercise 1.8 would be good

I'll hand out Chapter 2 next time (you can read online, too)



What should go in your book?
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Is this just a solution manual?

Yes and no.

1) For straightforward exercises, yes.

2) For open-ended exercises, it is more like a lab notebook.

   Several examples of replicating (and extending) the results
   of classic papers.

   a) Summarize the paper

   b) Explain your experiment; does it replicate or extend?
      If extend, how?

   c) Results, conclusions, discussion, future work.

   Imagine writing a commentary, or reply, to the original paper.

3) Depending on how fast you work, you should have at least
   a few opportunities to explore independently.

   You should write a summary of what you find, describe
   explorations you performed, etc.

   Imagine writing an additional section, or a sequel to my
   book (this may not be hypothetical :)

4) If the philosophy topics appeal to you, you might be inclined
   to write about them.  That's great!

   But beware: there is a difference between "having a philosophy" and
   "doing philosophy".  The latter is harder.


Visit protocol
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1) we need to be efficient, so please prepare

2) summarize your work over the last week

   (not too much detail about what you are working on right then)

3) have your book ready to display on screen, or print it	

   if you want me to work with material, print it

4) high level questions about the material are good

   (no technology questions, no debugging)