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:
@bthalpin I love this. It is a long-term goal to translate all the models from the book into Julia (and other languages, but Julia is top priority). As you surmised, I chose NetLogo for practical reasons, but I think that serious modelers should be competent in more general languages.
@psmaldino I'm enjoying your book!
#Julialang is a pretty good target. But I think that with the right choices about design, you could translate to Julia, Python and R almost in parallel.
