PhET Progress Report

Sam Reid

June 11, 2008

An online version of this report is available here.

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

Deployed Discharge Lamps 1.07 to the main site.

· No apparent robust and low-impact solution for frame size problem

1. This is a problem when running 1024x768 on Java 1.6 with a horizontal toolbar

Discussed Flash translation issues with Mike & Chris

Deploy Translations: fixed main class lookup problem that appears for sims that don’t have a flavor name equal to sim name

Deployed Fitness 0.00.36 – 0.00.42

· Added drag and drop, with toolbox

· Bugfixes

· Internationalized food and exercise repository

· Improvements for BMI readout

· Best name so far “Eating and Exercise”

· Added food pyramid

· Added zoom buttons for chart

· Started discussion with Noah P regarding this sim

Upcoming Work

· Fitness Simulation

1. Collaboration with Noah P

2. Decide when we should post 1.0 on the main site

· Translation Deploy task reassigned

· Improvements for CCK

1. I’ll start with high Priority first (as specified in Unfuddle)

· Platform-issues

· Discuss translation of Flash sims, with Mike & Chris & Dano

· Lasers lifetime sliders and ease of lasing (see email from Sam M)