Syllabus FAQ

This is a rough schedule of topics for each day and the release and due dates for each assignment.

Class topics and homework information may change over the course of the term. Please treat this schedule as a rough guide for seeing what we’ll be focusing on, and expect that there will be shifts as the term progresses.

The slide links are all restricted to Carleton folks, so make sure you’re logged in to your Carleton account if you have one. If you are outside of Carleton and would like to see them, just shoot me an email!

Date Assignment/Reading Due Class Topic Assignment Out
Week 1      
M 3/31 What is AL Prep What is (artificial) life? Slides  
W 4/2 C++ Prep Getting Started and C++, Slides  
F 4/4 Evolutionary Algorithms Evolutionary Algorithm Lab, Slides  
Week 2      
M 4/7 Read about CA project, Week 2 Checkin Finishing EA Lab, Slides  
W 4/9 Cellular Automata Prep Finding Neighbors, Slides CA project
F 4/11 CA 2 Prep Gradient Lab, Slides  
Week 3      
M 4/14 Inheritance Prep Inheritance in C++, CA Peer Review, Slides  
W 4/16 Ecosystem Models Prep, CA project Empirical World Intro, Slides AE project
F 4/18 Artificial Ecologies Continuing Empirical Intro Lab, Slides  
Week 4      
M 4/21 Avida Prep Peer review of AE projects; Avida-Ed, Slides  
W 4/23 Data Collection Prep Empirical Data Lab, Slides Encyclopedia assignment
F 4/25 AE project AE project help time, Slides  
Week 5      
M 4/28 Digital Evolution Prep Signal-GP Lite Lab, Slides DE project
W 4/30 Encyclopedia topic, Configuration Preparation Using Empirical Configuration, Slides  
F 5/2 Check-in questions DE Project help time, Slides  
Week 6      
M 5/5   Mid-term Break!  
W 5/7 DE project, group preference form Project introduction;Peer review of DE projects Project proposal
F 5/9   Guest Speaker: Dr. Alexander Lalejini  
Week 7      
M 5/12 Project topic checkin; Encyclopedia first drafts;Git Prep Peer review of encyclopedia drafts; GitHub  
W 5/14   Guest Speaker: Dr. Luis Zaman  
F 5/16 Project proposal Proposal peer review Final project
Week 8      
M 5/19   TBD  
W 5/21 Encyclopedia second drafts Graphing Data  
F 5/23   TBD  
Week 9      
M 5/26   Guest Speaker: Dr. Matthew A. Moreno  
W 5/28 Replication reports Sharing reports  
F 5/30   Guest Speaker: Dr. Emily Dolson  
Week 10      
M 6/2   Guest Speaker: Dr. Lisa Soros  
W 6/4   Final project; Wrap up; course evaluations  
Exam Period      
  Nothing scheduled, projects due 6/9 8:30pm (+1 hour grace period)    
    Any request for an extension must go through the Dean of Students office as I am not otherwise permitted to consider work submitted after this time.