Hello,
and welcome to the Summer 2018 edition
of Introduction to Agent Based Modelling
So, if you're just now watching the videos in order,
the video you just saw was the one about an overall introduction
to the course, that I've done and I've recorded it actually a few years ago.
But I always like to record a video right at the beginning of the course
that also would introduce you to this year in particular.
And so this is the video for the Summer 18 course.
and normally I do is with a nice backdrop
and everything like that, but this particular year
just before the course started , I happen to be at a meeting
at the Santa Fe institute .. so we are I'm actually
at a meeting for alumni of members
of the Summer school of the Santa Fe institute and I went
to the Santa Fe Institute Summer School
in ... 2002 so I'm back here again just to chat with a bunch of my ...other alums
and chatting about the world of complex
systems and agent based modelling and
all that great stuff.. and so I decide
What the heck I'll record it live while
I'm here and .. just do it right here
... and put it out for you ..more in the
spirit of things
or anything that really impress me
about the way that agent based modelling
is being taught or being understood
and its been very useful right
and I think it will influence some of the course
and some of the..ways that we're thinking
about things as we go forward and ofcourse
we get this beautiful, wonderful
backdrop of .. Santa Fe ... in New Mexico
world that we get to look out
as we are having this great meeting
and so ... anyways Welcome again
to the 2018 edition of an
Introduction to Agent Based Modelling
and .. I do wanna kinda make a couple of
comments .. so these videos now have been
putting together for three years right!
and so as a result you will see videos
from this year that are recorded , you'd
see videos from last year that were recorded.. videos from previous year
where we are always trying to update
everything to make it as good as possible
to have the newest and the latest stuff
That being said .. I don't have the
ability to update every video every year
as a result there are somethings that kind of creep in over the years
and you will notice specifically
that since I first taught this course
we've moved from NetLogo 5.3.1
to the newest version of NetLogo being
NetLogo 6.0.4 and that's the software we
are gonna use in this course.
Now .. functionally there aren't many
differences in those that did exist.
I think I may have updated all of them
last year so they should be now up and
running.. so in some of the videos that
you are gonna see ..you're gonna see
NetLogo 5.3.1 and in some you're gonna
see NetLogo 6.0.1 and in some you're
gonna see NetLogo 6.0.4. Now there aren't
many differences between 6.0.1 and 6.0.4
so that shouldn't be a problem..
there are some differences specifically
cosmetic differences between 5.3.1 and 6.0.1
But what I have tacked on at the end
of this introduction is a video that I
recorded last year talking about what
those major differences are so this way
when you are viewing the 5.3.1 videos
you say "Hey that doesn't quite look like
the way I remember, that doesn't quite
have the same or quite look the same way
that build code does up on the screen"....
Go back to this video. It will show you
when those .. differences are truly part
of the changes and when there actually
are significant differences right! ..
And ... yeah I think these approvements
are for the better .. The software is
easier to work with ...than it was before
but you know I do want you to be aware.
And I am going to try and update more of
the videos this year so there would be
fewer videos this year than there were
last year that look like the older version
So long story short use NetLogo 6.0.4
the newest, latest and greatest version
stick with it throughout the course
I think it would really help you out