PhET Progress Report

Sam Reid

May 8, 2009

An online version of this report is available here.

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

Ramp

· Latest version 1.03.19

· Many improvements to game module

· Bugfixes for main tab

· Introduce new "Coordinate frame" tab

· Performance improvements

Cavendish Experiment

· Latest version 00.01.01

· Added a sun-earth module

Misc

· Bugfix for balloons (with John)

· Discussed outstanding IOM issues with team, still 17 IOM tickets to go

· Piccolo: investigate Mac slider rendering problem and identified a better workaround

· Sim Design: identified a better way than HashMaps for managing graphics

· Translation Deploy: identify problems pointed out by Marj and test fixes by JO

· Updated Java Version Checker (JVC) and started preliminary tests, see #776

· Recommended ending code freeze

Upcoming Work

· Remove buffering from PSwing for rendering improvements, speed improvements and to avoid mac rendering problems

· Ramp Simulation, fixes and updates, including charts

· Misc IOM issues as they arise (e.g. translation deploying, etc.)

· For details, See ticket report "Sam R: Report" here