P2PU Archive - General discussion

Week 4: topics...

Joe Corneli — Sat, 19 Feb 2011 15:15:10 +0000

Are really to be dictated (or at least suggested) by participants. Please post here using the syllabus as a guide. Any outstanding questions from the previous weeks? Any particular ambitions for the rest of the course? Let's find out where everyone is "at".

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week 3: postings in the forum to check out

Joe Corneli — Tue, 15 Feb 2011 02:08:56 +0000

Several new postings including some questions, a new example, and a playable game - see http://metameso.org/vanilla/discussions.

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Games for Math designers

Joe Corneli — Sat, 12 Feb 2011 20:49:06 +0000

Care of Maria Droujkova:

https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/mathgamedesign/kDGN9Z_0Vx0

Thought some of you might find this interesting! -- and possibly indicates a fun angle to think about for Week 3 material...

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week 3: check-in and resources

Joe Corneli — Wed, 09 Feb 2011 21:19:18 +0000

If you've looked over the syllabus, you'll have seen that this week and the next *two* weeks concern various aspects of game theory. There are a couple of free online resources about this topic listed in the syllabus - please feel free to follow up here with more!

For the moment, I'll list a couple of books that I found in the library that deal with games in different ways.

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week 2: examples

Joe Corneli — Tue, 08 Feb 2011 00:13:36 +0000

Hi all:

I'm a bit behind schedule, but here is an interesting example for Week 2.

http://metameso.org/vanilla/index.php?p=/discussion/19/difference-calculus-example

I'll plan to follow up with another tomorrow. Also wanted to remind you to "check in" on some forum to describe your activities related to the course, if you haven't done so recently.

Joe

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When is a graph view appropriate?

David Workman — Mon, 07 Feb 2011 08:27:29 +0000

I was just thinking about when a graph is appropriate to use when thinking about the design of a game and when it isn't.

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about week 1

abdallah dorra — Mon, 07 Feb 2011 00:50:59 +0000

hello everybody,

i know that is probably late for a week 1 discussion, but i really need your help, I've used graphs before to solve problems, i have an idea about what they are and I'm familiar withs some algorithms that could be used on graphs, such as the shortest path algorithm, minimum spanning tree, hill climbing, simulated annealing and i guess breadth first search could also be used with graphs.

i want to know what material do you recommend to better understand graphs?
and when we talk about graphs for game designing,

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week 2: what's up

Joe Corneli — Wed, 02 Feb 2011 16:42:27 +0000

Hi all:

Those who showed up to the synchronous meeting said they were mainly interested in writing code, so I think what we need to do is create some discipline around this: in other words, we need to see the code. If you're writing code, or thinking about writing code, please start a thread describing the project you have in mind and any results! (The forums are here btw: http://p2pu.org/math-future/node/14535/forums!).

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general resources

Joe Corneli — Sat, 29 Jan 2011 18:10:34 +0000

Editable version of the course outline: http://piratepad.net/mathgame

Forum for discussing math problems:

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first meeting - alternate time, for those who couldn't make it

Joe Corneli — Sat, 29 Jan 2011 17:59:24 +0000

Here is a little scheduling tool you can use to indicate your availability for a check-in, in case you missed the first meeting:
http://whenisgood.net/ifghnjx
Otherwise, feel free to ping me on Gtalk (holtzermann17) or Skype (same) if you'd rather talk one-to-one.

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