Getting Started

• Introduction to the PySD Cookbook
• Installation and Setup of Python and PySD
  • Using Anaconda
  • Installing PySD
  • Launch Jupyter Notebook, and get started
  • Upgrading PySD
• Getting Started with Python
  • Why should system dynamicists learn to code?
  • A (very) brief intro to programming in python
• Using the Jupyter Notebook
  • Code Cells
  • Text Cells
• Working with git and github
  • Resources
• Hello World: The Teacup Model
  • Load the model
  • Run with default parameters
  • Return specific model components
  • Return values at a specific time
  • Modify parameter values
  • Specifying model initial conditions