Candid Student Reports

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

My group began project planning today.  We are graphing 
x and y position of a charged particle in electric and 
magnetic fields.  We need to develop algorithms to 
describe particle movement, however we do have a graphing 
system that will accept our algorithm outputs.
Ben

Today we started working on our computer modeling 
projects.  We came up with a phenomenon to model with 
a computer model.  My group is working on a model of 
the effects of constant electric and magnetic field on 
the motion of a charged particle.
Daniel

Today we started on our projects.  After 
brainstorming for a while, we chose our different 
topics.  We are doing a mall model with Jalena.  We are 
going to come up with probabilities of different age 
groups and genders of coming to a mall.  It was hard in 
the begining but we are making progress.   We can't wait 
to get it done.
Sophia and Fei

Today we commenced work on our computer modeling projects. 
Our model models the effect of constant electric and 
magnetic fields on the motion of a charged particle.
Samuel

I am working very hard on my project of my choice.  Me 
and my partner are writing a program on the Radioactive 
decay of the Carbon-14 atom.  We are have just started the 
program and it is going well.
Carla

Today we began our projects. My partner and I chose to 
make a simulation of  the different ways of gambling. Right 
now we are in the beginning stages but by the end of next 
week's class we should be nearly done.
Conrad

Today, we started our 3 week-long projects.  Our project is 
about gambling and different "strategies."
Albert

Today, my partner and I developed the project  we wanted to 
work on. We are going to simulate carbon decay. Today we 
figured out the equations we would need for the program and 
what our output would be (the amount of carbon left after a 
certain amount of years). We hope this project will be fun 
for us and the people who use it. 
Roshen