How to Create a Web Simulation

A web simulation has two parts: a series of equations (sort of like those you find in an Excel spreadsheet) called a model, and an interface made up of graphs, buttons, and inputs that control the model.

This tutorial will teach you how to build models and web interfaces for those models. By the end of the tutorial, you will have learned enough to develop a user-friendly web simulation.

This is an active, hands-on tutorial.. Throughout the tutorial, you'll be building a simulation. You'll start by writing model equations, then you'll design a web interface.

Each lesson builds on the topics covered in previous lessons. You should go through the tutorial lessons sequentially.

Ready? Let's get started!

Download the Tutorial Files

Lessons 2 - 11 use files that you need to download to your computer.

Click on the following link to download the zipped lesson files:

www.forio.com/broadcastdocs/downloads/tutorial.zip

Open and Unzip the lesson files.

If you do not have an unzip utility, you can download one at:

Windows version

http://www.winzip.com

Macintosh version

http://www.stuffit.com/expander/

 

In the first lesson, you'll learn use the QuickStart Wizard to quickly build a working simulation..

Lesson 1 - Creating a Simple Simulation