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<p class="MsoNormal">Ok, I’ll bite. Why is writing a computer program “mere details” and writing for human readers important?<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Facility with language is an important competence, period. Lacking it in technical realms is a massive deficit.
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<p class="MsoNormal">Marcus<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:black">From: </span></b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:black">Friam <friam-bounces@redfish.com> on behalf of Stephen Guerin <stephen.guerin@redfish.com><br>
<b>Reply-To: </b>"stephen.guerin@redfish.com" <stephen.guerin@redfish.com>, The Friday Morning Applied Complexity Coffee Group <friam@redfish.com><br>
<b>Date: </b>Tuesday, March 10, 2020 at 12:12 PM<br>
<b>To: </b>"Wedtech@Redfish. Com" <wedtech@redfish.com>, Friam Friam <friam@redfish.com><br>
<b>Subject: </b>[FRIAM] Fwd: [netlogo-users] Release of NetTango<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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From: <strong><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">Uri Wilensky</span></strong> <<a href="mailto:uri@northwestern.edu">uri@northwestern.edu</a>><br>
Date: Tue, Mar 10, 2020, 11:21 AM<br>
Subject: [netlogo-users] Release of NetTango<br>
To: netlogo-users <<a href="mailto:netlogo-users@googlegroups.com">netlogo-users@googlegroups.com</a>><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:black">Dear netlogo-users:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">This message announces a new NetLogo-related product developed at the CCL - NetTango, a domain-blocks interface to NetLogo. More details below.<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">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 <a href="https://netlogoweb.org/ntango-build" target="_blank"><span style="color:purple">https://netlogoweb.org/ntango-build</span></a>.<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">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.<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">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 <a href="https://anttango.netlify.com/" target="_blank"><span style="color:purple">the
NetTango tutorial</span></a> and see <a href="https://github.com/NetLogo/Galapagos/wiki/NetTango-Builder" target="_blank"><span style="color:purple">the NetTango documentation page</span></a> for more information.<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">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.<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">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. <b>Please consider making a donation</b> at our site <a href="http://ccl.northwestern.edu/netlogo/giving.shtml" target="_blank"><span style="color:purple">http://ccl.northwestern.edu/netlogo/giving.shtml</span></a>. All donation sizes
help.<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b> </b><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b>Planning</b><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">NetTango is a work in progress, and many more features are planned. This is a short list of possible future additions:<o:p></o:p></p>
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<li class="MsoNormal" style="mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1">A library for NetTango models.<o:p></o:p></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1">Support for creating and updating variables with blocks, both global and agent-owned.<o:p></o:p></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1">Enhancements to the expression editor, allowing it to do more interesting things such as interacting with variables.<o:p></o:p></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1">Provide some way to restrict where blocks can be placed in a program, either for NetLogo syntactical correctness or for modeling purposes.<o:p></o:p></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1">Add a way to include sounds for block actions.<o:p></o:p></li></ul>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b>Feedback</b><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">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: <a href="mailto:feedback@ccl.northwestern.edu" target="_blank"><span style="color:purple">feedback@ccl.northwestern.edu</span></a>.<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b>Credits</b><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">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.<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">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<span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:Helvetica"> the Spencer Foundation (Award #201600069).</span>.<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">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.<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:Helvetica">Enjoy,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:Helvetica">—Uri<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:Helvetica">Uri Wilensky<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#222222;background:white">Lorraine H. Morton </span><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:Helvetica">Professor of Learning Sciences, Computer Science and Complex Systems<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:Helvetica">Director, Center for Connected Learning and Computer-Based Modeling<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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