Candid Student Reports

The following (emails) were written by members of the Scientific Computing, 2000 during the second day of the program. Some elements may have been removed for various reasons, but the text that remains is in the student's own words.

Learned basic C++ programing and reviewed 
galaxsee. It'd be better if we went into 
more advanced programing.

-Dayu

Today we learned how to write programs in 
C++ and we compared the different methods 
for solving scientific problems on the 
computer, and why certain ways are 
better/easier to use to solve the scientific 
problems. We also learned about bacteria 
being immune to anti-bacterial soap and we 
made a model of this using the computer 
program Stella.  

-Ronnie

Today was more challenging than yesterday, 
which is good.  I enjoyed learning how to 
program, except that I wanted to be offered 
some more different commands/additions to 
the programs.

-Justin

Today i learned how to program in c++.  Even 
though it is a great learning experience, it 
gets very very boring.  I am not one of them 
people who can sit down for long periods of 
hours.

-Willie

Today we learned how to program in C++ and we 
compared C++ to Excel and Stella. We made a 
bacteria chart in Stella. During the GalaxSee 
lesson the excel part was a little confusing 
and too fast. Can we have some potato chips? :)

-Katherine

Today was ok. We learn about programing which 
I had a great time. The instructor is still 
going to fast.

-Anwar

Today we learned how to program computers.  I 
enjoyed today and was also interested in the 
galax-see program.  I enjoyed using that.  I 
found it easy how you taught us how to 
calculate the distance the stars were from the
center.  I did get a little tired of using and 
doing the same program over and over.  I like 
when you switched from one thing to another 
because some programs start to get old .. 
and boring.  But today was more fun than 
yesterday. 

-Giang

I thought today was, at times, a little boring...
but as the day went on it got a little better. 
I thought the galaxy activity was very interesting
and most of the programing part was fun but it was 
a little confusing at times but i did recover! 

-Rhyan

I think today was very interesting because ever 
sense I was in fifth grade I always wanted to 
learn how to program a computer

-Antonio