PhET Progress Report

Sam Reid

Oct. 21, 2008

 

An online version of this report is available here.

Here’s a pie chart representation of the time distribution.

 

Phetcommon

·         Internal fixes/cleanup (with Chris)

o   Refactor/simplify PhetApplicationLauncher/PhetApplication, and fix usage for all java simulations

 

Interviews

·         Attended Mary Beth's talk

·         Interviewed Jonathan

 

Eating & Exercise

·         Bugfix: when dropping an icon on the bar chart (not posted online yet)

 

Flash

·         Discussions regarding tracking/updates/preferences with Jonathan

 

ADA

·         Created ticket and spreadsheet to measure ADA compliance

·         According to my subjective interpretation of several of the issues, we currently comply with 50% of these requirements (see spreadsheet linked above)

 

Upcoming Work

·         See ticket report "Sam R: Report" here

 

High Priority items on my list (see also Eating & Exercise to-do list):

component_name

summary

piccolo-phet

Simplify/Cleanup ITrackingInfo and multiple tracking message handling in tracker

phetcommon

Version information should be added for tracker and messages

phetcommon

Add more tracking messages

eating-and-exercise

UI Bugfixes for eating & Exercise

<none>

Get VPN working on development machine

website

make translated sims available offline

translation-general

Make sure all sims use proper convention for string property files.

phetcommon

Some remaining issues for Updates/Tracking

all-sims

Licensing issues

all-sims

Localization Issues revealed by Alex's study