I've been looking at @psmaldino's book on social simulation https://press.princeton.edu/books/paperback/9780691224145/modeling-social-behavior for a potential new course.

I like it a lot but it uses NetLogo. I'd prefer to use Julia, so I spent a couple of hours this afternoon translating his first example.

Result: likely quite straightforward to teach from this book using Julia. Blog summary:

https://brendanhalpin.net/blog/posts/netlogovsjulia/