Hi Connor, Great! Welcome to the team!! I do think this would be a great time to automate the image processing. Generally, you might be able to help us automate a lot of this process. We actually don't have a Word document version of the most recent textbook. We, of course, have the original Word documents but they don't include the various changes and fixes we've made over the years. We are working from PDFs that were converted to Word. This of course leaves behind many artifacts. I've been trying to clean these up manually as I work on the documents, but it might be better to clean them up all at once. Even simple things like cleaning up the headers which now refer to the wrong chapter and page numbers has been a pain. Uri, I'll add the models to the folder. I think I have them in a separate folder but I'll move them in. I don't think I have a comprehensive set of models. Just the ones I've updated. As to the meeting time next week, I just had another meeting scheduled for 2-3 on Thursday, but I would prioritize our meeting instead. That being said I could meet on Friday after 3 PM ET. Take care, Bill McLauchlan Distinguished Professor of Marketing and Analytics Goodnight Executive Director of the Institute for Advanced Analytics On Thu, Apr 16, 2026, 6:41 PM Connor Bain <[email protected]> wrote:
Hi Uri and Bill
Sounds good! @Bill Rand <[email protected]> you can use [email protected] 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/ <https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://www.intro-to-abm.com/__;!!Dq0X2DkFhyF93HkjWTBQKhk!WCvU3gdCqAehi1oe8dqXBK_GJ9FwPOGX6ZC37ZMDZRssIeA4NO2OcrbUcmo_caeXn3ERVXPbHlt6V71gVhHGmQ5Vekcm0X1OdPG81dXo$> 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
-- Connor Bain Assistant Professor of Instruction Department of Computer Science Robert R. McCormick School of Engineering and Applied Sciences Northwestern University Technological Institute L374 [email protected] ------------------------------ *From:* Uri Wilensky <[email protected]> *Sent:* Thursday, April 16, 2026 4:36 PM *To:* Connor Bain <[email protected]> *Cc:* Bill Rand <[email protected]> *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 [email protected] (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,
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