Candid Student Reports

The following (emails) were written by members of the Scientific Programming class during the fifth session of the program. Some elements may have been removed for various reasons, but the text that remains is in the student's own words.

Today we learned how to correct a drawing program so the picture 
wouldn't go off the screen. And we learned how to change the colors.
Jalena

Today we learned about arrays, and then edited an applet that draws 
polygons.  I didn't know enough about how the applet used classes 
to understand at first, but our applet almost works now.
Ben


Great class today, I actually learned a lot today.  I liked this 
excercise better than the others.
Josh

Today we learned about arrays in java.  An array holds multiple 
elements of the same type.  They are accessed by index.  Then 
we moved on to classes.  Our big project for the day was to 
modifiy a program to get it to correctly draw a regular polygon 
with side length and number of sides as specified by the user.  
Unfortunately we were unable to finish today.
Daniel

I continue to have a great time and learn a lot in class. 
I'm very pleased with this course.
Robbie

Today we explored arrays and what a class is, we also worked 
with Applets.

Our activities are creating a working applet that draws the 
shape.  It was challenging but we enjoyed it.  Shodor is 
a great program that enriches our computational knowledge.  
Please keep on sponsoring this organization, it makes a 
difference in our lives.
Sophia and Fei

Today we had a great time in class. We learned new stuff on 
Java and how to convert integers into doubles. The activity 
with the square was fun b/c we finished second, and we got 
to make cool shapes. We look forward to next week.
Le'Roy and Sam

Today we entered the realm of the array, fun stuff.  We first 
had a project in editing our polygon program and then we 
edited another applet to make it work properly.
Albert