2024-2025 Catalog

CMPSC-F107 Ants, Rumors and Gridlocks

Do viruses and rumors spread like forest fires? How do ants cooperate? Do spoken languages and biological species evolve in a similar way? Ants, Rumors, and Gridlocks exposes students to introductory aspects of computational science by addressing and answering these and many other questions. Students use and modify virtual experiments preprogrammed in the NetLogo programming language to investigate these topics and others in Social Sciences, Biology, and Environmental Science. No prior knowledge of computer programming or NetLogo is required.

Credits

4

Prerequisite

Student has satisfied all of the following Institution has received a(n) Math Placement Exam test result with a(n) Math score greater than or equal to 15. Or Student has satisfied all of the following Student has completed any of the following course(s) Undergraduate Mathematics Courses 100 - 599