Candid Student Reports

The following (emails) were written by members of the Scientific Programming class during the ninth 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.

Well, I ironed out one bug that was bugging me 
(no pun intended) for a little bit.  My applet 
actually graphed what I wanted it to do, 
instead of dying on the first step.  We still 
have a minor visual bug but it's ok.
Albert

We improved our program to show the user carbon 
decay. It now gives the number of changed 
carbons in a time step. We hope to make this 
program in to an applet.
Roshen


We are now finished with our program and are  
now trying to improve it.  We are going to allow 
people to put in the number of atoms and making 
a graph of the results  
Carla

Today I and my partner completed most of our 
project, which displays the height of a bouncing 
object over time. 
Robbie

I enjoyed today's class. I am learning many 
new things like parametric equations.
Samuel

Today we continued work on our projects.  We made 
an applet that graphed the parabolic motion of an 
object and graphed the x and y position graphs in 
parametric mode.  This gave us a two dimensional 
representatino of the motion of the object.  It 
took some time but we got the graph working, and next 
will work on graphing the parametric equation for a 
charged particle under the influence of an electric 
and magnetic field.
Daniel

Today we continued working on our projects.  In my 
group we worked with Bethany on finding the number 
of people present at a mall.  We will finish it next 
week and we used PERL.
Fei

I'm very happy with my group.  We got all the 
preliminary work done.  All we have to do is put in 
options for input, and work out some visual problems.
Joshua Climer