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(For Term paper option 1) If you want to actually build a model
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This is where you have to start to learn about programming.
 You should probably learn C (or Java, which is similar).
 I don't think there is any easy way to do this, one must try to work on
 example code, then read books to understand why the code works, or does
 not.
 In C or Java, one declares variables by their type (e.g., int, float, double,
 char), they do math with symbols like (+,-,/,%), use conditionals like
 (&& and ||) and have if/then statements.
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1.
 The classic C book, by the creators of C, is: 
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Kernighan, Brian W.
 and Dennis M.
 Ritchie.
 1988.
 The C Programming Language.
 2nd ed.
 Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice Hall.
 Chaps.
 1-3.
 
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2.
 I found this very readable and it helped a lot when learning C.
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Steven Kochan.
 1994.
 Programming in Ansi C, 2nd ed.
 Indianapolis: Sams Publishing.
 Chaps.
 4-6.
 
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In these chapters, you will get a treatment of variable types, loops, conditiona
l statements, and other basics.
 
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For Java users, there are some excellent readings as well.
 I'd suggest 
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Bruce Eckel's Thinking in Java, which is available free online or for money
 in bookstores, or 
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Horstmann and Cornell's Core Java Fundamentals (this is from the Sun company
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 Get to the nitty gritty
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Choose a language
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Get a compiler & computer environment set up
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Work on some example programs.
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If you are a 
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clean slate,
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 consider using Linux as your operating system, Emacs as your editor, C
 (and the extensions of Objective-C) as your language, gcc as your compiler.
 You could use Java.
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Read about Unix environments and shells.
 I have an online notes about this http://www.ku.edu/~pauljohn
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2 Hello, world!
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Every program I have ever heard of comes with a small demonstration program
 that you can type in and compile and when you run it, all it does is print
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Hello World
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 or some other trite message.
 For your chosen language, find the Hello World program and run it.
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Here's such a program for C
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http://www.ku.edu/\i \~{}
pauljohn/SwarmFaq/WorkingExampleCode/c/hello_world.c 
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In a terminal, compile it 
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# gcc hello_world.c -o hello_world 
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and then run the program with 
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# ./hello_world 
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Then run it again, this time diverting the output from the screen into a
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# ./hello_world >> PaulTrappedOutput.txt 
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Then email me the file at pauljohn@ku.edu.
 
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 Do More Exercises! I have some C exercises and Java exercises floating
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If you are using Swarm, work on the first steps of the tutorial in swarmapps.
 Those are called simpleCBug and simpleObjCBug.
 
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