Resources and Links

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NetLogo Learning Materials from the User Community

General resources:

Curricula and classroom resources
Center for Connected Learning and Computer-Based Modeling, Northwestern University
NetLogoWiki
from TurtleZero.com
A collaborative, freely editable web site devoted to NetLogo.

Books:

Simulation for the Social Scientist
by Nigel Gilbert and Klaus G. Troitzsch
Covers NetLogo in addition to other tools.
Fundamentals of Multiagent Systems with NetLogo Examples
by José M. Vidal
Free online textbook “for a graduate or advanced undergraduate audience... the reader is assumed to be familiar with basic Artificial Intelligence techniques.”

Research papers:

CCL Research Papers
Center for Connected Learning and Computer-Based Modeling, Northwestern University
This is a complete list of our research papers, most of which involve NetLogo (or its predecessor StarLogoT).
publications by non-CCL researchers that cite NetLogo

Tutorials (in addition to those in the NetLogo User Manual):

NetLogo Tutorial in English and Spanish
by Michael Gizzi, Tom Johnson, Alfredo Covaleda, and Marcelo Chacon Reyes
An original tutorial in English by Michael Gizzi, also provided in Spanish translation.
NetLogo 4.0 Quick Guide
by Luis Izquierdo
An introduction to programming in NetLogo
NetLogo: Un Manual en español
by David Poza
A NetLogo tutorial in Spanish.

Older tutorials:

Complexity Workshop Tutorials: NetLogo and Repast
by Owen Densmore
The NetLogo tutorial material, aimed at “computer-shy scientists and other computer novices,” covers both usage and programming, in the context of a model in which turtles form pairs which grow into large clusters. (last update: 2003)
Turtle Epidemic: A NetLogo Simulation Activity
by Gerald J. Balzano
A three page tutorial that uses the example of an infection spreading through a population of turtles. (last update: 2002)
Programming Tutorial
by Christian Jost
A nine page tutorial based on Tutorial 3 in our User Manual, but using firefly synchronization instead of hill-climbing as the example problem. (It is in English, but procedure and variable names are in French to help the French students for whom it was adapted.) (last update: 2002)

Tools:

NetLogo Publication Script
by Steven Brewer
A script for simplifying the publication and updating of NetLogo models on the web.
BBEdit Language Module
by Dave Hurley
Syntax-colors NetLogo code in the the Mac text editor BBEdit.
NetLogo VIM Syntax File
by Steven T. Stoddard
Syntax-colors NetLogo code in the the VIM text editor.
NetLogo Obfuscator
by Peter Brooks
Creates “an obfuscated Procedures section to make the source code as indecipherable as possible, while allowing the project to work identically to the original”. Includes source code.