# Project PyCX in Julia

**URL:** <https://discourse.julialang.org/t/project-pycx-in-julia/23305>\
**Category:** Modelling & Simulations\
**Created:** [April 19, 2019, 1:00pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/project-pycx-in-julia/23305 "2019-04-19T13:00:30Z")\
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**Author:** ![sbacelar](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/julialang/user_avatar/discourse.julialang.org/sbacelar/32/4359_2.png) [@sbacelar](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/sbacelar)\
**Post date:** [April 19, 2019, 1:00pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/project-pycx-in-julia/23305/1 "2019-04-19T13:00:30Z")

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Just a suggestion by a Complexity Science student and a Julia fan (not knowing enough): to build a Julia version of [Project PyCX](http://pycx.sourceforge.net/) in Julia.  
Hiroki Sayama, _Introduction to the Modeling and Analysis of Complex Systems_ uses `PyCX` and is one of the most interesting introductory books to Complex Systems.  
I think that the people from `DynamicalSystems.jl` already did most of the work.

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**Author:** ![Datseris](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/julialang/user_avatar/discourse.julialang.org/datseris/32/13406_2.png) [@Datseris](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/Datseris)\
**Post date:** [April 19, 2019, 1:13pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/project-pycx-in-julia/23305/2 "2019-04-19T13:13:33Z")

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I don’t see any official website for the project nor a documentation page… Seems to me this is just a bunch of scripts put together?

By looking at the figures I can dare to say that **DynamicalSystems.jl** has much more features implemented. The only thing we don’t have is cellular automata. But there is a reason for that: besides just evolving then, I don’t really know what else one can do with them. They don’t really fit the goal of **DynamicalSystems.jl**.

What else do you like from Project PyCX that you can’t find in Julia? There is also robust network support with e.g. LightGraphs.

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**Author:** ![sbacelar](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/julialang/user_avatar/discourse.julialang.org/sbacelar/32/4359_2.png) [@sbacelar](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/sbacelar)\
**Post date:** [April 19, 2019, 1:57pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/project-pycx-in-julia/23305/3 "2019-04-19T13:57:45Z")

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> [@sbacelar](#):
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> Project PyCX

Maybe cellular automata have at least some pedagogical interest? But there is also another missing subject: agent-based modelling.

But let me rephrase my suggestion: what I think it should have some interest is not PyCX alone (I also don’t see an official website for the project) but the [Python code](http://bingweb.binghamton.edu/~sayama/textbook/) that comes with the book. I was hoping for something similar to what [Think Julia](https://benlauwens.github.io/ThinkJulia.jl/latest/book.html) is for [Think Python](https://greenteapress.com/wp/think-python/).

Speaking about _Think Julia_, why not a Julia version of [Think Complexity](https://www.amazon.com/Think-Complexity-Science-Computational-Modeling/dp/1492040207/ref=dp_ob_title_bk) from the same author?

Well, I know that it is easy to suggest even if the suggestion itself can be easily dismissed 🙂