Course Overview

In this lecture, students learn programing techniques for manipulating a variety of data. They will also learn simulation techniques with individual-based models. The programming language used is Ruby.

Learning Achievement

This course introduces various programming techniques to students, and aims to give students basic discipline for biological programming.

Competence

Lectures will give a basic introduction of these subjects for further study

Course prerequisites

None

Grading Philosophy

Attendance(0%), Exam(100%)

Course schedule

Course introduction and preparation for the following lectures
Ruby programming primer
Conditional execution
Input and output
Object oriented
Data manipulation 1: Data extraction
Data manipulation 2: Chaos Game
Individual-based model 1: Making a bug
Individual-based model 2: Making bugs
Individual-based model 2: Controlling bugs"

Course type

Lectures and Class Exercises

Online Course Requirement

Instructor

Tokunaga(Toquenaga) Yukihiko

Other information

Performance in or out of this class and at the final exam will be evaluated rather than attendance itself.

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