Candid Student Reports

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

I learned a lot today and had lots of fun.  Today we used 
computer programs to predict what will happen later on 
in a experiment.  We learned a lot about physics and 
how to model a program to calculate the velocity of an 
object and when an object would hit the ground.  
Carla

Today we learned how to write a program that calculates 
velocities of speed distance etc.
Jalena

This workshop was very fun. I was able to use a lot 
of the math I have learned so far in Alg II. I really 
had a good time doing the applet because we could see 
the results on the graph. The visuals were very helpful 
in seeing if our program worked right. It was better 
that the equations were given to us because then we 
could focus on constructing the program.
Roshen

Today we learned about dynamic systems.  We worked on 
a challenging project in which we plugged in the 
formulas so we could have an applet graph velocity and 
position of a falling apple.  It was very fun.
Sophia and Fei

Today we did some Java work with applets again 
which involved some physics.  It was a hypothetical 
dropping of an apple and modeling a graph of the position 
and velocity of the apple.
Albert

I enjoyed this class. It was interesting. Liked  making 
graphs.
Samuel

Today we learned how to model both computationally and 
simulationally involving some physics. We worked in Java 
on how to model an apple being dropped (in air) from a 
certain distance.
Conrad