Sugarscape Chapter 3- Draft Pull Request

[apranav22]

• creating the base code for chapter 3 of sugarscape, attempt to keep as a superset of chapter 2. Ideally, once this example is in a releasable state I would like to remove chapter 2's dedicated example.

TODO:

• Refactor the example code into AgentSets.

Current Issues:

• Struggling with agent reporters, I'd like to access agents' age data from agents.py using the data collector datacollector in models.py to visualise a bar chart. However, the bar chart does not show up.

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• On branch sugarscape Changes to be committed:
  new file: examples/sugarscape_scc/README.md
  new file: examples/sugarscape_scc/sugarscape_scc/init.py
  new file: examples/sugarscape_scc/sugarscape_scc/resources/ant.png
  new file: examples/sugarscape_scc/sugarscape_scc/sugar-map.txt
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  modified: examples/sugarscape_cg/sugarscape_cg/model.py
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  examples/sugarscape_scc/sugarscape_scc/agents.py
  examples/sugarscape_scc/sugarscape_scc/model.py

• modified: examples/sugarscape_cg/sugarscape_cg/model.py

• Changes to be committed:
  new file: examples/sugarscape_scc/sugarscape_scc/model.py
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  examples/sugarscape_scc/sugarscape_scc/agents.py

• new file: examples/sugarscape_scc/sugarscape_scc/agents.py

• modified: examples/sugarscape_scc/README.md

• modified: examples/sugarscape_cg/sugarscape_cg/model.pymodified: examples/sugarscape_scc/README.md

[rht]

@apranav22 how much smaller would the code be if it were to inherit from the existing sugarscape_cg classes? Let me know, and if it is sufficiently small, we may publish sugarscape_cg to be importable from mesa_models. Only 4 models are published for now: https://github.com/projectmesa/mesa-examples/blob/main/setup.cfg.

[apranav22]

@rht I think it would reduce redundant code by an order of magnitude actually. Shall I rewrite the code to inherit from the existing files?

I also wanted to refactor a little bit keeping AgentSets in mind. Is writing examples with experimental features encourages?

[rht]

I published the sugarscape_cg in #108. Once merged, you can do from mesa_models.sugarscape_cg.model import SugarscapeCg and from mesa_models.sugarscape_cg.agents import SsAgent.

Shall I rewrite the code to inherit from the existing files?

Yes, sounds good to me.

I also wanted to refactor a little bit keeping AgentSets in mind. Is writing examples with experimental features encourages?

I suppose it is fine for new examples. I have only used AgentSet for the experimental examples. What do you think, @projectmesa/maintainers @quaquel ?

[rht]

@apranav22 #108 has been merged.

[EwoutH]

@apranav22 hey! Would you like to finish this PR? Is there anything we can do to help?

[apranav22]

@apranav22 hey! Would you like to finish this PR? Is there anything we can do to help?

Hi! I've been meaning to get to it but I've been swamped of late. I will work on it right now. Sorry for the slack :(

[apranav22]

There's a problem. Some of the relative file paths get mangled when I try to inherit from sugarscape_cg. For example, the function that generates the map using the relative file path no longer works.