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modeling 2013
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The Modeling Your World workshop began with review of yesterday's workshop.

Levi talked about modeling your world concepts, methods, how to use those methods, how to write them, and connect them properly. In the next part, the students were given a model to design one step at a time. The model included healthy people, zombies and food.

In the workshop, Levi went through each step of the modeling process and how to treat yourself as one of the part of the world while modeling and then see what are the methods need to be used. During the lecture, Levi went over every step along with the students. Things they needed to keep in mind were: How they see the world, How student can change the numbers of healthy people, and if there are no healthy people, no food will be produced by the houses.

Next, students created new agents in the world by themselves. They changed the behaviors of agents in the model, like if a healthy human comes in contact with the zombie, the zombie will bite him and the healthy human will become a zombie. Students wrote methods to do all this and created all the agents in the workshop. In the last part of the workshop, they worked with developing their own model and practicing their coding for the agents.