PhET Progress Report

Sam Reid

June 4, 2008

An online version of this report is available here.

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

· Flash Launcher

o For usage in the Translation Utility

o Allows launching of translated flash sims offline

o All Flash sims will need to be standardized to fit into this framework

· Discharge Lamps

o Fixed bugs in layout for energy level diagram

o Address window size issue for this sim and other non-resizable sims

o Redeploy Discharge Lamps to tigercat

· Met with John to discuss sim architecture, profiling, graphics, transforms

Upcoming Work

· Translation Deploy task can be reassigned

· Fitness Simulation

1. Prioritize recommended to-do’s

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

3. Shall we handle translations of food/exercise repository?

· Improvements for CCK

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

· Platform-issues

· Lowered Priority

1. Other teams have provided bugfixes for Piccolo, we should try to benefit from these/share work

2. Bug regarding Save/Load in CCK

3. Improve support for sim testing

4. Build-Process (handle failure for out-of-sync case), with Chris

5. Discuss translation of Flash sims, with Mike & Chris & Dano

6. Improve versioning for Batch Deploy, with Chris

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

I’ll be taking a couple of days of vacation in the upcoming week.