CLASS:System Science (with implicit Ruby)

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Harrumph! Consider this your syllabus.
 * Propaganda #1: Introduction To Systems
 * KEY TERMS: system, open system, closed system, environment
 * System => a whole composed of relationships among the members. 
 * Open systems
 * Closed systems
 * Both types: the contrast, the polarity! The sheer awesomeness!
 * Propaganda #2: Basic Systems Modelling (with a pinch of Ruby)
 * KEY TERMS: paradigm, syntax, number, symbol, array, hash, string, block, method, variable, constant, boolean, method argument, block argument
 * Basic Ruby
 * The parts of speech (arrays, symbols, methods, variables, and the like)
 * Constructing code
 * Methods
 * Method arguments
 * Return values
 * "true", "false", and "nil"
 * "if..then" and "case..when" statements
 * Ternary operator (maybe)
 * Structs
 * Using structs to model open & closed systems
 * Propaganda #3: Complex Systems
 * KEY TERMS: complex system, fault-tolerance, replication, redundancy, diversity, dynamical system, chaos theory, chaotic system
 * Complex systems
 * Fault-tolerance
 * Replication, redundancy, and diversity