[FRIAM] Fwd: [netlogo-users] Release of NetTango

[Stephen Guerin]

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From: Uri Wilensky <uri at northwestern.edu>
Date: Tue, Mar 10, 2020, 11:21 AM
Subject: [netlogo-users] Release of NetTango
To: netlogo-users <netlogo-users at googlegroups.com>


Dear netlogo-users:
This message announces a new NetLogo-related product developed at the CCL -
NetTango, a domain-blocks interface to NetLogo. More details below.

The Center for Connected Learning and Computer-Based Modeling (CCL Lab) at
Northwestern University is pleased to announce the first beta release of
NetTango, NetTango1.0beta1, available to use for free on our site at
https://netlogoweb.org/ntango-build.

NetTango is a domain-blocks-based interface for the NetLogo agent-based
modeling environment. The CCL has been developing NetTango for the better
part of a decade, with the goal of creating very "low threshold" access to
NetLogo for use by younger learners, or in contexts where there is not
sufficient time to learn text-based programming. NetTango can be used as a
blocks-based "code-first" interface to NetLogo, or it can be used as an
environment to author such blocks-based models.

For authoring, starting with a NetLogo model, you can define your
domain-specific code blocks that can be dragged and dropped together to
make a working program. For a detailed breakdown of the process check out the
NetTango tutorial <https://anttango.netlify.com/> and see the NetTango
documentation page
<https://github.com/NetLogo/Galapagos/wiki/NetTango-Builder> for more
information.

This NetTango release is a non-final beta and more features and bug fixes
will be coming. Every effort will be made to keep projects created with
this version working correctly as new releases come out.

The NetLogo user community continues to experience much growth. Maintaining
our many products like NetLogo and NetLogo Web, creating new software like
NetTango, adding features to support our users, and expanding the models
library requires considerable resources.  *Please consider making a
donation* at our site http://ccl.northwestern.edu/netlogo/giving.shtml. All
donation sizes help.

*Planning*
NetTango is a work in progress, and many more features are planned. This is
a short list of possible future additions:

   - A library for NetTango models.
   - Support for creating and updating variables with blocks, both global
   and agent-owned.
   - Enhancements to the expression editor, allowing it to do more
   interesting things such as interacting with variables.
   - Provide some way to restrict where blocks can be placed in a program,
   either for NetLogo syntactical correctness or for modeling purposes.
   - Add a way to include sounds for block actions.


*Feedback*
If you have feedback or find bugs in NetTango, please email them to us with
"NetTango" in the subject line. We will review all submissions and respond
as we are able. Please send feedback to: feedback at ccl.northwestern.edu.

*Credits*
NetTango was co-designed and co-authored by Mike Horn, director of
Northwestern's TIDAL lab, and Uri Wilensky, author of NetLogo and director
of Northwestern's CCL Lab. The current core development team includes
Jeremy Baker, Jason Bertsche, Aaron Brandes, and Bryan Head.

Support for NetTango was provided by National Science Foundation grants:
NSF-DRL-1109834, NSF-DRL--1020101, NSF STEM+C-2670354, NSF STEM+C-1642139,
and the Spencer Foundation (Award #201600069)..

NetTango is built as an extension of NetLogo Web which was built from
NetLogo desktop. The CCL gratefully acknowledges two and a half decades of
support for our NetLogo work. The original support came from the National
Science Foundation -- grant numbers REC-9814682 and REC-0126227. Further
support has come from REC-0003285, REC-0115699, DRL-0196044,
CCF-ITR-0326542, DRL-REC/ROLE-0440113, SBE-0624318, EEC-0648316,
IIS-0713619, DRL-RED-9552950, DRL-REC-9632612, and DRL-DRK12-1020101,
IIS-1441552, CNS-1441016, CNS-1441041, CNS-1138461, IIS-1438813,
IIS-1147621, DRL-REC-1343873, IIS-1438813, IIS-1441552, CNS-1441041,
IIS-1546120, DRL-1546122, DRL-ITEST-1614745, DRL-1640201, NSF
STEMC-1745938. and NSF STEMC-1842374. Additional support came from the
Spencer Foundation, Texas Instruments, the Brady Fund, the Murphy fund, and
the Northwestern Institute on Complex Systems.

Enjoy,

—Uri

Uri Wilensky
Lorraine H. Morton Professor of Learning Sciences, Computer Science and
Complex Systems
Director, Center for Connected Learning and Computer-Based Modeling

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