PhET Progress Report

Sam Reid

September 1, 2009

 

An online version of this report is available here.

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

 

Ramp and Forces-And-Motion

·         About 27 fixes/features

·         Latest version is 1.03.35

·         Ready for feedback from the team on sim and issues in italics in

1.      the Ramp To-Do document

2.      Forces and Motion To Do document

·         What else before we interview?

 

Moving Man

·         Posted Moving Man 1.25 to tigercat, with 2 fixes

·         Provided time estimates for proposed work

 

Misc

·         Collaboration with John on neuron sim and il8n for radioactive dating game sim

·         Posted sim dependencies, and sims for common libraries and a report for ramp in particular

1.      We should decide which of these sims should be reposted, or whether we'd like to investigate the source code for changes before investing in repost + retest.

 

Upcoming Work

·         Moving man: Kathy & Wendy are discussing

·         Ramp Simulation: waiting for feedback from team

·         Motion Suite: waiting for decision regarding possible Moving Man rewrite and priorities for other sims, need to discuss Robot Moving Company games with NP

·         Force Law Lab fixes based on NP's interviews

·         CCK - new Physics implementation, testing and performance analysis (with Sam M)

·         JMonkeyEngine/Xith /3dzzd/Flash/Papervision3d/Feng Gui