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NetLogo

Simulation Language

NetLogo is an open-source programming language and integrated development environment for agent-based modeling, designed by Uri Wilensky, director of Northwestern University's Center for Connected Learning and Computer-Based Modeling, and first appearing in 1999. It follows a low threshold, no ceiling philosophy, letting users program using agents called turtles, patches, links and the observer to build simulations. NetLogo was built for educators teaching programming to children as well as domain experts without a programming background who need to model phenomena in their own fields, and it is used to explore emergent behavior across disciplines including economics, biology, physics, chemistry, psychology and system dynamics.

Facts
Classification
Typing Discipline
Dynamically Typed 1
Typing Discipline
Strongly Typed 1
First Released
1999 1
Connections

Follows Typing Discipline

Entity-backed identity for the typing discipline value this language already carries as an enum fact, resolved to a concept entity by an explicit value-to-entity map (phase 3 bucket conversion, docs\design_entity_backed_browse_buckets_20260928.md). The enum fact itself stays on the entity unchanged.

Entity-backed identity for the typing discipline value this language already carries as an enum fact, resolved to a concept entity by an explicit value-to-entity map (phase 3 bucket conversion, docs\design_entity_backed_browse_buckets_20260928.md). The enum fact itself stays on the entity unchanged.

In Field

Source NetLogo (Wikipedia)
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1. NetLogo (Wikipedia)
  • Lead, history
    NetLogo first appeared in 1999.
  • Infobox typing field
    typing = Dynamic, strong
  • In Field: Programming Language Theory, Lead sentence
    NetLogo is an open-source programming language and integrated development environment (IDE) for agent-based modeling.
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