You can install three different Modelica tools. Please install Dymola in order to be able to participate to the crash course. Additionally, you could try also OpenModelica or JModelica.
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Dymola (commercial software). Fill out this form to download the demo (320 MB). After installation you HAVE to install a c-compiler, otherwise you cannot run any model. You can download and install Microsoft Visual Studio C++ compilers, choose the C++ 2010 Express edition). Test your installation by running a demo (eg open File/Demos/Robot, then click Commands/Simulate and wait till you see a graph.)
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OpenModelica (open source free Modelica implementation with lots of add-ons, see www.openmodelica.org). Follow instructions in the manual/tutorial to test your installation.
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JModelica 1.10 (open source, free, python based implementation of Modelica, focus on gradient based optimization, NO GUI. See www.jmodelica.org). Check the tutorials to test your installation.