Candid Student Reports

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

Today we presented the projects we had been working 
on.  My group was unable to finish most of what we 
were doing, because it took so long to get the 
algorithm worked out.  We presented two different 
applets modeling the same thing (the motion of a 
charged particle in a magnetic field).  One used a 
time stepping method, but we were unable to get the 
time step small enough to make the simulation 
realistic.  The other one gave a more realistic 
model, but it was really an equation made to fit 
the predicted behavior of the particle.
Daniel

We watched presentations of models. We never 
finished our model completely
Samuel

Today our presentation was a pretty good sucess. 
We explained our applet, which showed the bounce 
effect rather inaccurately, but was still very 
progressive and helped me learn even more 
programming language.
Robbie

Today we showed our projects with the whole class.  
I saw a lot of interesting projects.  We really liked 
the program that showed the path of the particle in 
a magnectic field.  I liked this program.
Carla

I'm happy about the progress that my group made 
in completing our project, and I was supprised to 
see all the interesting subjects that people chose 
to do their projects on.
Joshua

Today was the last day of projects, and we managed 
to finish our project just in time.  It came 
together quite nicely.
Albert

Today we finished up our projects (just in time) and 
presented them. We did gambling simulation of 2 
different methods. Today was the most interesting 
and fun.
Conrad

Today we finished up our projects. We made ours in to 
an applet so that we could present it to the class. 
We also learned a lot from everyone else's 
presentation. I liked the class and want to learn more 
about programming in the future.
Roshen