NetLogo Introduction & Tutorials

The attached PDFs are intended to be used as introductory NetLogo tutorials - either for self-guided study, or in a classroom or workshop setting. In addition to the PDFs, basic downloading and installation instructions are included.

Most of the PDFs include NetLogo models as attachments (depending on which PDF viewer you are using, you may need to click on the paper clip icon to see attachments, or select Attachments from the View menu, etc.) corresponding to the models which the student is expected to produce at key milestones in each of the tutorials. There are also some links between the PDFs; thus, for best results, all of these PDFs should be downloaded and placed in the same directory.

To use these tutorials, you must have NetLogo installed. If you don't have NetLogo installed already, then follow these steps to install it:

1. In a browser, navigate to the NetLogo download page (http://ccl.northwestern.edu/netlogo/download.shtml).
2. Select the most recent 4.x version (the general version for which the tutorials are applicable) from the Version control. (As of June 1, 2011, the recommended download version is 4.1.3.)
3. Click the download link for the desired platform.
4. For Windows and Mac OS X users, after the download is complete, double-click on the downloaded file to install. Linux users must extract the contents of the downloaded archive, and move or copy them to the appropriate location.