NetLogo

NetLogo is an open-source programming language and integrated development environment (IDE) for agent-based modeling. It is part of a family of agent-based modeling products, which includes NetLogo Web, NetLogo 3D, NetTango, TurtleUniverse, HubNet, HubNet Web, and BehaviorSpace. It is currently being maintained by the Center for Connected Learning and Computer-Based Modeling (CCL) at the School of Education and Social Policy (SESP), Northwestern University. NetLogo, the programming language, is a Lisp-style programming language with support for lists, “agentsets”, strings, input/output, and plotting. Like the software itself, the programming language is also extensible using the built-in extension manager. Many extensions are available, including support for arrays, tables, matrices as well as integrations with popular programming languages like R and Python. NetLogo was designed by Uri Wilensky, in the spirit of the programming language Logo, to be "low threshold and no ceiling". It teaches programming concepts using agents in the form of turtles, patches, links and the observer. NetLogo was designed with multiple audiences in mind, in particular: teaching children in the education community, and for domain experts without a programming background to model related phenomena. Thousands of scientific articles have been published using NetLogo.