Day 1 - The General Purpose Language

• Program Structure
• Variable Names and Syntax Rules
• Control Structures
• Sample Problem
• Data Structures - entities, attributes and sets
• PC SIMSCRIPT II.5
• Lab Exercise - entities, attributes and sets

Day 2 - The Simulation Language

• Modeling the Passage of Time
• Processes
• The Telephone Model
• Time
• Resources
• The Airport Model
• The Pacific Port Problem - discrete process simulation

Day 3 - Random Numbers, Statistics and SIMGRAPHICS

• Events
• The Airport Model (revisited)
• Random Numbers and Statistics
• Modernizing a Bank - with replications
• Presentation Graphics
• Presentation Graphics
• The Pacific Port Problem (revisited) - subroutines called from a process and statistics

Day 4 - Advanced Simulation Topics

• User Interface Forms
• Efficiency
• Monitoring
• Interrupting and Suspending Processes
• The Communications Center
• Externally Activated Processes
• The Pacific Port Problem (reprise) - exogenous events and Interrupt/Resume

Day 5 - Continuous Simulation and SimAnimation

• Continuous Simulation
• Demonstration of SimAnimation
• Animated Graphics
• Heathrow Airport - animation problem