PhET Progress Report

Sam Reid

April 10, 2008

An online version of this report is available here.

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

Fitness

· First team meetings

· Sim Team= Sam Reid, Ingrid Reid, Kathy Perkins, Wendy Adams, Franny Benay, Kathy Semsar, William Byrnes

· Rudimentary design docs here and here

· Initial version here, includes all basic onscreen elements

· Need to implement underlying model, make UI influence model, better graphics,

better layout, better UI

Platform-Issues

Nuclear Physics

· Collaborated with John regarding piccolo, graphs, physics, coordinate frames, etc.

Phetcommon

· Added animated clock icon (with Chris)

· Posted Photoelectric sim with new clock

Soluble Salts

· Fixed bug that prevented launching on Linux

· Fixed bug that caused “random walk” checkbox to be out-of-sync with sim

· Posted on main site as 1.03

Unfuddle

· Added user interface to prompt for login information at startup (if not provided)

· Added script to make email notification system start automatically on bootup

· Email notification server halts once a week or so (due to server access failure?) It takes me about 5 minutes to restart, but perhaps I should put John or Marj in charge of this, or write a workaround for this failure case.

Upcoming Work

· Please see all my high priority issues in Unfuddle

· Fitness Simulation

· Platform-issues

· Sorting out and prioritizing (non-cck) unfuddle issues

· Post new Lasers and Neon Lights & Other Discharge Lamps after Archie interviews (may also receive minor update requests)