Educational TOS is getting new life in Oklahoma
This is just to inform the TOS community that now I am using TOS as an educational tool at Rogers
State University, a small undergraduate school in Claremore, Oklahoma.
I have used TOS as a learning object in my Distributed Systems Development course offered in the Fall
2006 semester, and now, in Fall 2007, I teach a project based course Multi-Agent Systems Simulation.
The latter is using TOS in a five-week project. Then we will switch to the full-blow RoboCup simulated soccer.
I believe that TOS is good for undergraduate students. It has many faces, such as AI, real-time
concurrency, distributed architecture, and 3D graphics. It also offers the opportunity to explore
human-robot collaboration in well-understood environment such as simulated soccer.
I see one more educational opportunity in using TOS in a Software Engineering course as an example of
reasonably complex software project. More opportunities may emerge if TOS is used for teaching AI for game
programmers. As my school offers a major in computer game development, I have some plans in this regards.
So I am enthusiastic about using TOS as learning object and invite other educators for to collaborate.
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