Exam skeleton is available here

Pay particular attention to diagrams and standard models, which include for instance:

EDEN

• Digit-Cabinet, Lift, The OXO laboratory, JUGS, the Sudoku Experience
• Heapsort, The Railway Animation, The Clayton Tunnel model, Vimodes
• Showcase models: Ant Navigation, Keyboard Dynamics, Internal Combustion Engine

Other tools (Cadence, JS-EDEN, LSD and ADM)

• Stargate, Lift, Diving, Binary adder
• jseden.dcs.warwick.ac.uk/dev/
• Clayton Tunnel, Railway animations, 5-a-side Football (see Lectures 16 and 19)

Other possible resources:

previous years' exam papers, background literature, EM publications, EM projects

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1. Basic EM principles

• Fundamental diagram- key concepts:
  • construal [computer]
  • referent [domain]
  • context [environment]
  • understanding [modeller]

• Construal comprehension exercise
  • NIM
  • Beam Detector
  • Bubblesort
  • Pjawns * 2
  • Cricket scoring

• Standard ingredients of EM
  • observables + dependencies + agents/agency
  • definitive notations (see Lectures 5,6,7,8)
  • EMPE + DMT + LSD notation (see Lecture 16)

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2. EM and Learning (see Lectures 9 and 12)

"becoming familiar with particular sequence of interacting with a construal and interpreting the results"

• The EFL
• Cognitive layering
• The SIN principle
• empirical to theoretical perspectives / EM and Learning - The Onion Metaphor
• constructionism - blending via co-directed interaction of learner, teacher, developer
• epistemological pluralism

Other possible sources:

online video of Nottingham LSRI seminar, November 2010 (find 'Beynon' / click on R)

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3. Human Computing / EM perspective on computing (see Lectures 10 and 11)

Steve's diagrams - perspectives on computer science

• traditional computer science
• EM as a broader view of computing

• human computing
• an alternative curriculum for computer science

Other possible sources:

Karl King's Uncovering Empirical Modelling and Thinking Through Computing

Paul Dourish Where the action is and Willard McCarty Humanities Computing

EM paper #082: Human Computing: Modelling with Meaning

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4. EM and programming (see Lectures 14, 15 and 19)

• what is directly experienced by the programmer
• how EM construal can act as a program
• how compares / contrasts with established s/w development process
• concurrent systems modelling / conceptual integrity

NB. The above agenda should be studied in conjunction with suitable illustrative models.

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5. Tools for EM (see Lecture 1, 2, 3, 17 and revisit Labs 1, 2, 3 and 8)

• Cadence
• tkeden
• JS-EDEN / Web EDEN
• the ADM

Issues for EM tools:

• interfaces, constructing large-scale models
• exploiting concurrency and distributed implementation
• dependency in contemporary practice of computing e.g.
  
  • Karl King's spreadsheets
  • WPF
  • Imagine-d Logo

Other possible sources: Tim Monks MSc dissertation, Nick Pope PhD thesis

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