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StarLogo is an MIT-developed programmable modeling environment for exploring decentralized systems. Extending Logo, it enables parallel control of thousands of graphic turtles and their interactive environments, helping students and researchers understand complex phenomena.

  • Pros

    • Programmable modeling environment for decentralized systems.
    • Controls thousands of graphic turtles in parallel.
    • Computationally active environment with programmable patches.
    • Facilitates interactive behavior between turtles and patches.
    • Specialized version of the Logo programming language.

  • Cons

    • Relies on the Logo programming language paradigm.
    • Lacks mention of advanced data visualization tools.
    • No specified support for external data integration.
    • Does not detail options for model export.
    • No mention of collaborative project features.
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GENERAL
Release
Latest update
Version
2.2
OPERATING SYSTEMS
Platform
Windows
Operating System
  • Windows 95
  • Windows NT
  • Windows 10
  • Windows XP
  • Windows 98
  • Windows 2000
Additional Requirements
Windows 95/98/ME/NT/2000/XP
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By MIT Teacher Education Program
programmable modeling environment for kids
StarLogo is a programmable modeling environment for exploring the workings of decentralized systems -- systems that are organized without an organizer, coordinated without a coordinator. With StarLogo, you can model (and gain insights into) many real-life phenomena, such as bird flocks, traffic jams, ant colonies, and market economies. In decentralized systems, orderly patterns can arise without centralized control. Increasingly, researchers are choosing decentralized models for the organizations and technologies that they construct in the world, and for the theories that they construct about the world. But many people continue to resist these ideas, assuming centralized control where none exists -- for example, assuming (incorrectly) that bird flocks have leaders. StarLogo is designed to help students (as well as researchers) develop new ways of thinking about and understanding decentralized systems. StarLogo is a specialized version of the Logo programming language. With traditional versions of Logo, you can create drawings and animations by giving commands to graphic "turtles" on the computer screen. StarLogo extends this idea by allowing you to control thousands of graphic turtles in parallel. In addition, StarLogo makes the turtles' world computationally active: you can write programs for thousands of "patches" that make up the turtles' environment. Turtles and patches can interact with one another -- for example, you can program the turtles to "sniff" around the world, and change their behaviors based on what they sense in the patches below. StarLogo is particularly well-suited for Artificial Life projects.
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