Discovering Computer Science

Section 9.1

• Madison, WI temperature data
• Exercises
  • 9.1.7.  USGS earthquake data — 1 month, 2.5+ (local copy, downloaded 1/16/2015)

Section 9.2

• Game of life program
• Box 9.1.  NumPy
• Exercises
  • 9.2.1.  Game of life program
  • 9.2.11.  Game of life program

Section 9.3

• Image module (image.py)
• A photo of a penguin (penguin.gif)

Project 9.3

• 3-D Brownian tree created with VPython
• VPython

Recommended books and articles

• Flatland: A Romance of Many Dimensions by Edwin A. Abbott
• Turtles, Termites, and Traffic Jams by Mitchell Resnick
  
• Emergence by Steven Johnson
  
• Agent-Based Models by Nigel Gilbert
  
• Biological Computation by Ehud Lamm and Ron Unger