<p>One book that comes to mind is "Economic Dynamics" by John Stachurski <a href="http://johnstachurski.net/edtc.html" rel="nofollow">found here</a>.</p>

<p>This book discusses programming methods that are applied to economics. All of its accompanying code is kept on <a href="https://github.com/jstac/edtc-code" rel="nofollow">this</a> github repository.</p>

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<p>Another book that comes to mind (in keeping with the 1 book per answer guideline) is the Quant-Econ book that is being put together by Tom Sargent and John Stachurski. This book is a little more geared towards programming than John's Economic Dynamics book and can be found (for free) online at <a href="http://quant-econ.net/" rel="nofollow">http://quant-econ.net/</a>.</p>

<p>All of the book's code is on github and I think it provides a pretty strong introduction to the two programming languages that it uses (Python and Julia).</p>

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<p>Is there a book along these criteria?</p>

<ul>
<li>introductory</li>
<li>discuss both theory and writing program</li>
<li>focus on social science (economics / politics / sociology)</li>
</ul>

<p>There are bunch of tutorials on the Internet, but journal articles tend not to have code, and a lot of work is not relevant to social science. Thus I think I'll get better recommendation from Econs SE.</p>

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Do yo mean "numerical anaylsis" on Matlab, Mathematica etc. for writing program ?
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The most common language I've seen mentioned is NetLogo, with Python / Java / Matlab coming in second (for people who really dislike NetLogo as a programming language)
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# Book recommendation: agent based modeling?

(Asked by: username_0 on 2015-07-24)

Is there a book along these criteria?

* introductory
* discuss both theory and writing program
* focus on social science (economics / politics / sociology)

There are bunch of tutorials on the Internet, but journal articles tend not to have code, and a lot of work is not relevant to social science. Thus I think I'll get better recommendation from Econs SE.

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> **Comments:**
> **username_1**: Do yo mean "numerical anaylsis" on Matlab, Mathematica etc. for writing program ?  
> **username_0**: The most common language I've seen mentioned is NetLogo, with Python / Java / Matlab coming in second (for people who really dislike NetLogo as a programming language)  

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## 2 answers

### Answer by username_2 on 2015-07-25. Score: 2 | Accepted answer

Another book that comes to mind (in keeping with the 1 book per answer guideline) is the Quant-Econ book that is being put together by Tom Sargent and John Stachurski. This book is a little more geared towards programming than John's Economic Dynamics book and can be found (for free) online at <http://quant-econ.net/>.

All of the book's code is on github and I think it provides a pretty strong introduction to the two programming languages that it uses (Python and Julia).

> **Comments:**
> **username_3**: The included link is now dead.  

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### Answer by username_2 on 2015-07-25. Score: 2

One book that comes to mind is "Economic Dynamics" by John Stachurski [found here](http://johnstachurski.net/edtc.html).

This book discusses programming methods that are applied to economics. All of its accompanying code is kept on [this](https://github.com/jstac/edtc-code) github repository.


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