Re: A little help for a newbie, please :-)

[donalson]

Torben,

   The mouse trap example has the type of sheduling you are looking for.  In 
addition, I sent
you some stuff that I am presently writing up for my dissertation on schedules. 
 I don't know whether it will be of any use to you but you can always just use 
the DEL key. :-)

To the SWARM community, I will make it available for general consumption (along 
with a good antacid) when I get it in a final form.  That translates to when I 
finally finish this address@hidden@$! dissertation.

Cheers,

   D3

Torben Abildgaard Knudsen wrote:

> Hello again...
>
> I´ve been studying the simplebug-tutorial for a while. To me it seems like it 
> focuses on the "time-step-approach" of simulation.
> For my project I need to learn the principles of dynamic scheduling and how 
> to implement an "event-by-event-approach" in SWARM.
> I´ve started analyzing the mousetrap example, but it contains an awful lot of 
> code, that I find hard to understand (for newbies:-).
> Is there a better place for me to start? (some sort of step-by-step tutorial 
> focusing on the "dynamic-scheduling-approach")?
> Maybe a simpler example, which illustrates the same principles, whitout 
> hundreds of lines of code to begin with :-)
> If not: is there some obvious way to simplify the mousetrap example to make 
> it more accesible?
>
> All in all, I can say that I´m quite impressed by the wide range of possible 
> features in SWARM, but also I´m a bit overwhelmed, since I never really did 
> any extensive programming before...(i did a little in C and a little in JAVA, 
> but never anything for "serious purposes").
>
> Can anyone help me? I´m looking forward to making progress learning SWARM.....
>
> Greetings from Denmark and goodnight (it´s late over here now because of the 
> time difference...)
>
> Torben A. Knudsen
>
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