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===== Spatio-Temporal Information for Society: Software =====

===== Software Description  =====

The models described in this course will be developed using [[http://www.terrame.org | TerraME]]. TerraME is an extension of the [[http://www.lua.org|Lua]] language. Some useful documents about TerraME:

  * {{http://www.dpi.inpe.br/gilberto/papers/mrel_paper.pdf|Experiences with a Socio-Environmental Modeling Course, //Modelling in Science Education and Learning//, 2014}}
  * {{http://www.dpi.inpe.br/gilberto/papers/terrame_ems_post_print.pdf|TerraME:An extensible toolbox for modelling nature-society interactions, //Environmental Modelling and Software//, 2013}}

Students should read the TerraME EMS and the MREL papers first, to get a sense of the language and what we are going to teach. The next step is to learn the basics of Lua, which is a simple and elegant programming language. Good references on Lua are:

  * {{http://www.lua.org/spe.html| Lua - an extensible extension language, by R. Ierusalimschy, L. H. de Figueiredo, W. Celes, //Software: Practice & Experience//,  26 #6 (1996) 635–652. }}
  * {{http://docs.coronalabs.com/guide/start/introLua/index.html| A one-pager introduction to Lua (very good!)}}
  * {{http://www.lua.org/pil/contents.html | The Lua book by Roberto Ierusalimschy (excellent!)}}
  * {{http://www.dpi.inpe.br/gilberto/cursos/cst-317-2014/luaforterrame-version2.pdf|Lua for TerraME: A Short Introduction}}

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==== TerraME ====

Please first install the TerraME software, available at the  [[http://www.terrame.org |  TerraME site]]. Please install TerraME in "C:\TerraME" in Windows, or in "/usr/local/terrame/" in a Mac or Linux machine.  After you have installed TerraME, please follow the instructions below.

==== Zero Brane Studio: IDE for TerraME ====

We suggest that you use [[http://studio.zerobrane.com | ZeroBraneStudio]] as your programming environment for developing TerraME programs. In Windows, please install the program to ''C:\ZeroBraneStudio''. In MAC and Linux, please use the default installation path.

After you download ZeroBrane, please do the following steps:

  - Copy a new [[http://www.dpi.inpe.br/gilberto/terrame/zerobrane/user.lua | user.lua]] configuration file to the "cfg" folder where you have installed ZeroBraneStudio. In Windows, this is "''C:\ZeroBraneStudio\cfg''" if you have installed the program as instructed above. In the MAC, this is "''/Applications/ZeroBraneStudio.app/Contents/ZeroBraneStudio/cfg''". In Ubuntu, this is "''/opt/zbstudio/cfg''".
  - Copy the [[http://www.dpi.inpe.br/gilberto/terrame/zerobrane/terrame.lua | terrame.lua]] interpreter description file to the "interpreters"  where you have installed ZeroBraneStudio. In Windows, this is "C:\ZeroBraneStudio\interpreters" if you have installed the program as instructed above.In the MAC, this is "''/Applications/ZeroBraneStudio.app/Contents/ZeroBraneStudio/interpreters''". In Ubuntu, this is ''/opt/zbstudio/interpreters''.
  - Optional: delete the other interpreters of ZeroBrane (Corona, Guideros, etc.) and leave only Lua, Lua5.2 and TerraME.

==== Additional library for the course ====

We have created an additional TerraME library to help with the course examples and exercises.

Install the {{http://www.dpi.inpe.br/gilberto/cursos/terrame/courselib.zip|Library for teaching TerraME}} in the directory <TerraME directory/contrib/courselib>. In Windows, this should be C:/TerraME/contrib/courselib. In Mac and Linux, this should be /usr/local/terrame/contrib/courselib. Create the subdirectory <TerraME directory/contrib/> is it does not already exist.
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