New Mexico Computer Science For All Creating Turtles Maureen Psaila-Dombrowski

Agents in Netlogo Observer – no specific location, looks over entire Netlogo World Turtle Agents – Mobile agents ▫Can have different shapes and names (breeds) Patches – Stationary agents ▫Netlogo World is divided into a grid work of small squares or patches Links - Agents that connect two turtles

Three Ways to Create Turtles Create command – Observer creates turtles create-turtles # Creates # new turtles at the origin Turtles have a random color and direction

Three Ways to Create Turtles Sprout Command – Patches create turtles sprout # Creates # turtles on a selected patch Turtles have a random color and direction

Three Ways to Create Turtles Hatch Command – Turtles create turtles hatch # Must be an existing turtle Creates # new turtles at the same location as the “parent” turtle Each new turtle inherits of all the “parent” turtle properties

Three Ways to Create Turtles More Information: create-turtles.htmlhttp://ccl.northwestern.edu/netlogo/docs/dict/ create-turtles.html sprout.htmlhttp://ccl.northwestern.edu/netlogo/docs/dict/ sprout.html hatch.htmlhttp://ccl.northwestern.edu/netlogo/docs/dict/ hatch.html