Simulating spiking neural networks is easy and fast with NEST Simulator.

We will look at NEST Desktop, a GUI that runs in the browser and allows you to create a network by point-and-click.

Then we will show how you can build and simulate an excitation/inhibition balanced network using just a few lines of Python code.

We will extend NEST by creating our own custom neuron models and synaptic plasticity rules using NESTML.