The topic of Week 10 is the “behavior space” — the NetLogo tool for designing and running an experiment using a model. We finished designing a NetLogo model to explore the synchronization of firefly flashing as an example, and ran some simple experiments. Students should be familiar from the previous week’s reading with the basics of the firefly model, and also the goals of multi-agent simulation.

Week 11 is the important programming and algorithmic concept of recursion. The week moves from recursive mathematical functions, to recursively defined graphical objects such as Sierpinski curves, to recursive sorting.