Walls
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One of my students is doing a side project and wants to know if you can set up walls in a terrain so that he can build our school and run simulations.
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Epidemic Module Help Debug
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First of all, I am so thankful for the help I am getting from this forum. I really believe this is a great curriculum, but for me the learning curve is steep. I appreciate the help you give me on this forum. One of my students is working on the epidemic model and it seems to not be working. Can someone help me debug this? https://www.slnova.org/%24-Trip-EEE-%24/projects/662839/edit/
Clear Terrain and Delete Everyone
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My students keep asking why they should put a "clear terrain" and "delete everyone" blocks at the beginning of their code. The video said it was best practices, but I'm still not quite sure what that refers to. It seems like if the program is new there would be no terrain to clear and no agents to delete. I'm pretty new at this so I appreciate any help I can get.
StarLogo Nova Blocks and Drawers Guide for StarLogo Nova 2.0
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Bumper Turtles Help
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I watched all the videos and tried the bumper turtles with my students. Sometimes the turtles react to the painted landmarks and turn, but sometimes they just keep moving right on through the landmarks. My students are frustrated because we can't figure out why they do this and how to fix it. I wish there were some cheat codes for teachers to get an idea of what the code should look like and some common problems that students run into and how to solve them.
https://www.slnova.org/miriam.brown/projects/658258/
Comments within code
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I am currently working on a program that simulates orbits of planets in our solar system around the sun and thought it would be really useful to have a block available to make comments within my blocks of code to keep track of the planets I have created.
Comments within code is an important part of code development in order to help programmers and other team members communicate the functions of the code.
Thanks!
Why CS Belongs in Every Science Classroom
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File format for custom shapes?
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I've not been able to get a custom shape to import. I've tried stl and obj. Is there another file format or size limit of which I should be aware? My students would love to have more shapes available.
Thanks!
Tami
Turning Built-in Shapes
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I'm sure there's an easy solution to this, but some of the built-in shapes are at odd angles. For example, the car is set with its nose turned down. Is there a way to rotate the car so it isn't at this angle?
Scientific Practices and Computational Thinking in Modeling & Simulation
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