• historical approach to cosmological simulations

• a general introduction to ordinary differential equations

• brief review of cosmology

• why actually N-bodies?

• how to generate the initial conditions

• the time integration in an expanding Universe

• everything about tree codes

• the concepts behind particle-mesh codes

• the gory details of adaptive-mesh refinement techniques

• a brief excursion to hybrid codes

• code testing, cross comparison and convergence studies

• how to find objects in cosmological simulations

• gastrophysics in super-comoving coordinates

• MONDian cosmology