Wildlife Simulation

• Ungraded, 0 points
• Open Mon 2012 Nov 26, accepted until Mon 2012 Dec 10.

This is an optional lab, which is not graded. Doing this work and turning it in will not directly increase your number of points for this class. However, it may indirectly improve your grade, by making you better prepared for the final exam.

Problem

The bears and fish simulation of chapter 11 is unrealistic: if the fish die out, the bears keep living, even though they have no food. See if you can fix this in a plausible way.

Please follow the Coding Standards, including the new rules of style added in Chapter 10.

Work on this with a team if you like.

Hints

• You may not notice the problem if you stick with the initial simulation conditions given in the book. Try editing the variables in the mainSimulation function to make the world with 25 instead of 50. This will increase the crowding of the world, making it easier for bears to find and catch fish. Without this, you may not observe the fish dying out.
• The problem has something to do with the reproduction rate and starvation rate of bears.

Turning in Your Work

Submit a brief writeup explaining your solution, along with your code. Submit all code files needed to run the simulation as revised.

If you worked on a team, please submit only one copy from the team, with all of your names on it.

Feedback

This lab is not required and is not graded for points; but if you do turn it in, I will look at it and comment.