Bart van Rotterdam wrote:
>I would suggest the program SCAMP or its follow up JARNAC developped by
>Herbert Sauro. Gepasi (not Gepsi) by Pedro Mendes is an option as well. You
>should be able to find them using a search engine.
>I agree with this suggestion, but would add a comment that which you prefer
out of Gepasi and Jarnac (and which is more appropriate for your needs) is
likely to depend on how deeply you intend to get into modelling. At a
workshop in Stellenbosch a year ago the students were taught how to use
both of these, but then had the choice of which one they would actually use
in their practical exercises. As an observer at these exercises I was
struck by the fact that although they were divided more or less 50:50 in
their preferences these were far from being random or haphazard. Almost
systematically, the students who had no previous experience of modelling
and were not planning to do much of it preferred Gepasi, whereas those who
did have some experience or were planning to make it a major focus of their
activities preferred Scamp or Jarnac. None of this is intended to imply
that one is better than the the other, but only that they seem to appeal to
different sorts of user.
athel
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