1. TABLE OF CONTENTS ؕؓ 1. TABLE OF CONTENTS 1.1 2. AN INTRODUCTION TO UNIX 1.5 2.1 OVERVIEW 1.5 2.2 UNIX 1.6 2.3 THE NETWORK 1.8 2.4 GOOD MANNERS 1.10 3. THE INTERNET 1.11 3.1 NETWORKS 1.11 3.2 NETWORK TYPES 1.14 3.3 NETWORK PROTOCOLS 1.15 3.4 DATA FORMATS 1.18 3.5 PULLING ALL THE PROTOCOLS AND FORMATS TOGETHER WITH BROWSWERS 1.22 3.6 OTHER STUFF 1.22 4. TEACHING WITH THE INTERNET 1.27 4.1 LECTURES 1.31 4.2 ON-LINE NOTES 1.32 4.3 ON-LINE MARKING 1.33 4.4 The Time-Line For My First On-Line Course (Fall 1996) 1.34 5. WWW and HTML 1.37 5.1 Why Bother? 1.37 5.2 Where to Find Netscape 1.37 5.3 How to Get Your Own Home Page 1.37 5.4 How to Create a file 1.38 5.5 Resources 1.40 6. A BASIC INTRODUCTION TO `C' 1.41 6.1 WHY USE `C'? 1.41 6.2 BACKGROUND 1.41 6.3 PROGRAM PARTS 1.41 6.4 HOW A `C' COMPILER WORKS 1.49 6.5 STRUCTURED `C' CODE 1.50 6.6 ARCHITECTURE OF `C' PROGRAMS (TOP-DOWN) 1.51 6.7 CREATING TOP DOWN PROGRAMS 1.52 6.8 HOW THE BEAMCAD PROGRAM WAS DESIGNED 1.53 6.9 PRACTICE PROBLEMS 1.59 7. GUI DESIGN 1.61 7.1 PRACTICE PROBLEMS 1.61 8. AN EXAMPLE - BEAMCAD 1.61 9. PROGRAMMING IN JAVA 1.79 9.1 OVERVIEW 1.79 9.2 THE LANGUAGE 1.79 9.3 OBJECT ORIENTED PROGRAMMING 1.82 9.4 REFERENCES/BIBLIOGRAPHY 1.85 10. DATABASES 1.86 11. MESSAGE PASSING ON NETWORKS 1.87 12. MATHEMATICAL ELEMENTS OF COMPUTER GRAPHICS 1.128 12.1 INTRODUCTION 1.128 12.2 PIXELS 1.128 12.3 LINE DRAWING 1.130 12.4 POLYGON DRAWING 1.133 12.5 SHADED POLYGONS 1.135 12.6 COLORS 1.136 12.7 DITHERING 1.141 12.8 RAY TRACING 1.145 12.9 RADIOSITY 1.154 12.10 ADVANCED GRAPHICS TECHNIQUES 1.154 12.11 REFERENCES 1.155 12.12 PRACTICE PROBLEMS 1.156 13. NEW TOPICS 1.157 13.1 VIRTUAL REALITY 1.157 13.2 MULTIMEDIA 1.157 14. VISIONS SYSTEMS 1.158 14.1 OVERVIEW 1.158 14.2 APPLICATIONS 1.159 14.3 LIGHTING AND SCENE 1.159 14.4 CAMERAS 1.160 14.5 FRAME GRABBER 1.163 14.6 IMAGE PREPROCESSING 1.164 14.7 FILTERING 1.164 14.8 EDGE DETECTION 1.165 14.9 SEGMENTATION 1.166 14.10 RECOGNITION 1.169 14.11 PRACTICE PROBLEMS 1.171 15. SIMULATION 1.176 15.1 MODEL BUILDING 1.177 15.2 ANALYSIS 1.179 15.3 DESIGN OF EXPERIMENTS 1.180 15.4 RUNNING THE SIMULATION 1.183 15.5 DECISION MAKING STRATEGY 1.183 15.6 PLANNING 1.185 15.7 NEURAL NETWORK THEORY 1.200 16. ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE (AI) 1.219 16.1 OVERVIEW 1.219 16.2 EXPERT SYSTEMS 1.220 16.3 FUZZY LOGIC 1.220 16.4 NEURAL NETWORKS 1.221
