Hi Uri and Bill

Sounds good! @Bill Rand you can use connorbain@gmail.com for me.

Re: meeting time, I teach from 12:30pm to 1:50pm and 3:30pm to 4:50pm on Tuesdays and Thursdays. So I can meet from 2pm to 3pm though would have a preference for another day of the week if possible so I could have time to prep for meetings.

If that's the only slot that works, we can do that with the expectation I might be a minute or two late (after-class questions and getting back to my office).

Re: images, this might be a good chance to at least partially automate or otherwise keep track of version changes for images. That way if there were future UI changes to NetLogo we could "easily" regenerate at least model images (many of the screenshots and such would still need to be done manually) and then provide those as new copies via the https://www.intro-to-abm.com/ site (I'm imagining a specifically visuals only errata). It might also be good to start thinking of re-vamping the website as well (though that can obviously be addressed after the text is done).

All best,

Connor

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Connor Bain
Assistant Professor of Instruction
Department of Computer Science
Robert R. McCormick School of Engineering and Applied Sciences
Northwestern University
Technological Institute L374
connor.bain@northwestern.edu
From: Uri Wilensky <uri@northwestern.edu>
Sent: Thursday, April 16, 2026 4:36 PM
To: Connor Bain <connor.bain@northwestern.edu>
Cc: Bill Rand <billrand@gmail.com>
Subject: welcome aboard
 
Hi Connor,
We are eager to get started.

Bill just created a google drive for us all, Textbook2..
He’ll need your gmail address to give you access to the account.

Right now there are 6 files in the folder

We’d like for you to read each one carefully (in order) and (in suggestion mode) make any edits you think are needed or comments 
you have.

If you have questions or things to comment on, email textbook2@ccl.northwestern.edu (that mailing list should be live very soon). This would include any issues you see coming up in class). If you find code  that is no longer good or optimal, please make sure to take note and suggest a fix.

Once you have finished a chapter, please send an email with any more summative comments or thoughts. Feel free to make big suggestions if you think they’d be improvements.

We’d like to continue our once-a-week meetings, but now with you aboard.

Our usual meeting time has been Thursdays 3:15 - 4:15 CST. I know you are teaching the class on Thursdays so that may not be a good time, and we’ll need to reschedule.

Due to Bill’s schedule next week, we were thinking our first meeting would be next thursday, from 2 - 3. Let me know if next week works, and also if the time thereafter works. We will adjust accordingly.

One other small thing:
All the netlogo pix in the book are using NetLogo 5.
When we’re finishing up, Bill plans to make a sweep of all the model images and replace with NetLogo 7.

I just realized Bill and I didnt talk about the models themselves. If you look in the models library, you will find an iABM folder that has all the models by chapters. They should be pretty close to what we have in second edition. But Bill, can you include in our google drive the latest models for Mac chapter, Maybe instead of chapter files at top level, we could use folders that have the chapter text as one element and all its associated models as others there,

Best,