Build your own disease model: walkthrough

This tutorial will take you to build up such an epidemiological model of spreading disease.

To do this, we are going to use "Scratch". Scratch is a website for building computer games and animation, however, there is nothing to stop us using it for something more serious.

Part One: The basic model

Work through all the bits of this you need to, and part 3.

1) Go to Scratch and get yourself a username (link at top right); you'll need this to save stuff.

2) Work through the basic Basic Scratch tutorial if you haven't used it before (it's worth looking at the first bit anyway, just so you know what we call stuff).

3) Building the basic Zombie-bite model

Part Two: Exploring disease spreading

Work through whichever bits you think will make your model better.

1) Showing disease spread

2) Modelling deadly diseases

3) Modelling realistic diseases

Here's a copy of the final model, but work through a step at a time to understand it.

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