ABM Basics 1

Question 1

What does a model usually do?

Answer 1

The code simulates interactions between different types of agents

Question 2

What does the ‘setup’ button do?

Answer 2

Setup button is meant to create the starting conditions for the simulation

Question 3

How do you initiate and stop a simulation?

Answer 3

You press the go button

Question 4

What happens when you press the ‘once’ and or ‘forever’ button?

Answer 4

Once buttons do one action then stop, forever buttons keep on going

Question 5

What are patches, turtles, observer, agents in NetLogo?

Answer 5

Patches - the spatial domain where agents can go
Turtles - agents that move around the patches
Agents - divided into patches and turtles; beings that can follow instructions

Question 6

True or False: Both color and pcolor are “variables”

Answer 6

True

Question 7

What’s the difference between pcolor and color variables

Answer 7

the color variable is a turtle variable, while the pcolor variable is a patch variable.

Question 8

How can you make a simple setup button code for a Simple Crime Triangle Model?

Answer 8

to setup
clear-all
create-turtles 100 [ setxy random-xcor random-ycor ]
reset-ticks
end

Question 9

What’s the purpose of indenting lines of code?

Answer 9

Helpful because it makes the code easier to read and change

Question 10

What word does every procedure start and end with

Answer 10

starts with - to
ends with - end