CS382:Resources

Other courses like the one we are designing or that contain components that we like:

• Scientific Visualization across Disciplines: A Critical Introduction, MIT Open Courseware. The site has tons of readings that look useful for us.
• PHYS 220:Scientific Modelling at Macquarie University
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On-line repositories of course materials that contain units we might consider:

• Computational Science Education Reference Desk (CSERD), a Pathways component of the National Science Digital Library (NSDL), http://www.shodor.org/refdesk/
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Documents, readings, assignments:

• Tutorial on Agent Based Modelling (potential reading?) (Nate has the actual pdf) ACM Digital Library

• Computational Sociology and Agent Based Modeling
• Implications of Systems Dynamic Models and Control Theory for Environmental Approaches to the Prevention of Alcohol- and Other Drug Use-Related Problems
• Insect Population Simulation (S.D. vs Mathematical)
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Nate's intro materials for reviewers / foundational materials unit people

• Shiflet. Book is in the Math/CS lounge or ACL for reviewers to look at. Read the first chapter.
• Wikipedia's page for Scientific Modelling
• This one 's a bit silly but it has a nice summary
• Dense and philosophical , but might be of interest to some students
• Wikipedia on scientific visualization
• The Unreasonable Effectiveness of Mathematics in the Natural Sciences