Candid Student Reports

The following (emails) were written by members of the Scientific Programming class during the second 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 went over some programming basics and then 
implemented some basic techniques.  We made our own programs to 
solve some problems that Garrett gave us about giving change, 
creating visual patterns, and taking square roots. 
Ben

Today had its interesting parts at the end of the day, 
when we had to do make a program that does a certain function. The 
assignment I chose was to make an intelligent rock, paper, scissors 
program that uses its knowledge on previous choices to make its own 
choice. It was a success.
Conrad

Comments: Today we learned about conditional statements and loops. 
We also learned about Boolean operators.  Me and my partner wrote a 
program to determine the change for a given number of pennies using 
the fewest possible coins.
Daniel

This workshop was better because I was able to take in 
what the instructor was saying. There should have been more time for 
us to finish our programs.
Roshen

Today was another successful class, without the hitches of 
the first class.
Joshua 

We had a lot of fun this class.  We learned more about 
Perl: looping, and conditionals.  After we learned about loops and 
conditionals, we got to put our skills to the test.  We wrote a 
program that found square roots.  It was fun.  We can't wait until 
next week.
Fei and Sophia

Today we learned how to create different programs and how 
to run them properly.
It was very fun and interesting to do.
Jalena and Monte

I also enjoyed today's lesson very much. We continue to 
learn lots of new information, almost at too fast a rate.
Robbie

Today's class very enjoyable, but the temperature in the 
classroom was above normal.  Anyway, I liked it, and I'll see you 
all next Saturday.
Le'Roy and Sam

Today was a great, as always.  I had fun and learned a lot. 
I wrote a whole program on how to find the Prime numbers on 1 to 
100.  It was hard, but figuring it out was very rewarding.
Carla 

Today was an interesting day as we got to select projects 
that we wanted to do, including calculating income taxes for the 
various tax brackets and a rock paper scissors program towards the 
end of the class.
Albert