+Welcome to EO, the Evolving Objects library,
+and to
+
EO Tutorial
-Welcome to EO - the Evolving Objects library.
+
+Version 0.92 - Jan. 5 2001
+
The short term idea of this tutorial is to help you build
your own Evolutionary Algorithms using EO - while the long term
idea is that you will be able to contribute to EO, and ultimately write
our
EAs :-)
-About this tutorial
+
+
About this tutorial
This tutorial can be used in 2 different ways: algorithm-based and component-based.
-
@@ -42,7 +47,9 @@ that you take some time on the first lesson of the Algorithm-Based approach
to get familiar with the basic concepts that are used throughout EO. Anyway,
as of today, December 19, the Component-Based is only very sparsely written
:-)
-
Related documents
+
+
Links and Related
+documents
-
There are of course a few (very few) programming
@@ -50,19 +57,20 @@ hints that you should know.
-
THe EO documentation - automatically
-generated from the comments in the code - is very helpful, to get an idea
-of the inheritance diagrams of EO classes, and to quickly reach some specific
-part of the code.
+generated from the comments in the code - is very helpful to get an idea
+of the inheritance diagrams of EO classes,
+and to quickly reach some specific part of the code.
The top page of each class documentation is for instance the inheritance
diagram of the class, and you'll learn a lot by simply looking at it.
-
And, last but not least, we assume you know approximately that an Evolutionary
Algorithm looks like this, but otherwise you can try this very
-brief introduction).
+brief introduction (not written yet, Jan. 2001, sorry).
-
Colors and navigation:
+
+
Colors and navigation:
You will see this diagram in quite many places, as for instance at the
top of all examples - usually it will be clickable and will help you navigate
among the different parts of an EO program. See the brief
@@ -73,8 +81,8 @@ introduction to Evolutionary Computation for a detailed explanation.
But in the text itself, colors are important,
as they will be used throughout this tutorial to clearly mark which part
of the algorithm we are discussing. So please keep in mind that, whereas
-orange
-is for emphasis,
+orange
+is for emphasis,
-
Yellowish is for representation,
@@ -114,23 +122,35 @@ syntax of compile orders (i.e. at the operating system level, see e.g.
below).
-
-Last, but not least, all links into EO documentation
-will use the Helvetica typeface, like this line you are now reading.
+Last, but not least, all
+links into EO documentation will use the Helvetica typeface, like this
+line you are now reading.
+
This tutorial is
+not
-
-an interface that would allow you to build your Evolutionary Programs by
+A course on Evolutionary Computation. You can find such things on the Internet,
+maybe you can start here.
+
+-
+An interface that would allow you to build your Evolutionary Programs by
a few clicks; such a thing does exist, is called EASEA,
and is complementary to this tutorial as it helps the user to build some
simple EO programs from simple description. But there are things that EASEA
cannot do, and you will have to do it yourself and will need to increase
-your knowledge about EO for that.
+your knowledge about EO for that - hence this tutorial.
+
+-
+A coffee machine - though you might want to spend some time here when you're
+tired of everything else, to improve your knowledge of EO slowly and gradually
+rather than when you have something urgent to code :-)
-
-
-Before you start
-You should of course have downloaded and installed the whole EO
+
+
Before
+you start
+You should of course have downloaded and installed the whole EO
library (how did you get this file if not???).
So we'll assume that you are now in the Tutorial directory, and that
your prompt looks something like