[netlogo-devel] colon notation: the future of extensions

2015-03-19 Thread Alan Isaac
Since this is under discussion, I am hoping some user feedback would be helpful. 1. I cannot recall ever having a student stumble over the concept of an extension. 2. I cannot recall ever having a student stumble over the colon notation. Instead, it highlights nicely that an extension is in

Re: [netlogo-devel] colon notation: the future of extensions

2015-03-19 Thread Frank Duncan
This is all good to know! One last question, with extensions. Do you run into situations where students are using NetLogo without being connected to the internet? Would dynamically fetching extensions the first time they are run into by netlogo (the first time a model is opened that uses one) be

Re: [netlogo-devel] colon notation: the future of extensions

2015-03-19 Thread Frank Duncan
I should put in big, bold letters up here, that the following is ALL vaporware at this point. For discussion ONLY. The problem is that there's four general categories of extensions: core - bundled as they are now. Things like the file system primitives would go in a core (as would array,

Re: [netlogo-devel] colon notation: the future of extensions

2015-03-19 Thread Alan Isaac
My impression is that my undergraduate students are always connected -- at least those living on campus -- but I have not surveyed them. I have had graduate students who could not afford internet access at home and so were connected only on campus, but I do not know how common that is. I am

Re: [netlogo-devel] reading model files with mixed encodings

2015-03-19 Thread Seth Tisue
On Thu, Mar 19, 2015 at 8:37 AM, glen ep ropella gepr@gmail.com wrote: After poking around awhile, I found this hack: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/13625024/how-to-read-a-text-file-with-mixed-encodings-in-scala-or-java Cool. It might also work to re-encode the file first using an

[netlogo-devel] Re: colon notation: the future of extensions

2015-03-19 Thread Seth Tisue
If anyone's wondering what prompted this discussion, see https://github.com/NetLogo/NetLogo/issues/574 for background. As Frank said, this is currently just discussion, not work in progress. Seth -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups netlogo-devel