Marine Biology Case Study

• Part I: Fish in an Aquarium
  • One fish moving back and forth in an aquarium

    Concepts Covered

    • Classes, functions, if statements, for loops
    • Introduction to simulation
    • Random numbers, random behavior

• Part II: Fish in San Francisco Bay
  • Many fish moving in a large, bounded environment

    Concepts Covered

    • While loops, vectors, matrices, data representation
    • Black-box testing
    • Object interaction, many objects
    • Analyze design decisions
    • Pass-by-value (pass-by-copy), return by copy