Week 6 (10/7/2011) Fall Semester 2011

Week 6 (10/7/2011) Fall Semester 2011

With the first mid semester exams behind their back, most of them are working away at
RCOS. We had three talks.

1) Peter Hajas on Pairkit http://rcos.rpi.edu/projects/pairkit/ and six other project

2) Colin Kuebler on Koala http://rcos.rpi.edu/projects/koala/

3) Beth Werbaneth on SFML Tutorial series http://rcos.rpi.edu/projects/sfml-tutorial-series/

Peter gave a whirlwind tour of seven projects he is doing this semester. In Pairkit, he is an easy-to-use pairing and communication open source framework for iOS and OS X
He is progressing well. His Howl project https://github.com/peterhajas/Howl
is a tool for visualizing Yelp data provided for academic sites.
His smissy project (with Tim Horton '11 RCOS alumni) https://github.com/peterhajas/Smissy is a tool for visualizing ioS backups. Peter is also assisting with two other RCOS project (directory project and course scheduler project). Peter, as usual, gave an awesome presentation and answered all the questions.


Colin gave a status report of his project. Nick has done work on the back end (during Summer 2011) using ruby on rails. Colin is concentrating on front end. Colin hopes to complete his project by the end of semester. Colin is coding in Javascript.

Beth has been working hard in her SFML tutorial series. She is also documenting her efforts. Beth has already developed three games which she gave a brief demo. She is programming in C++ under Microsoft Projects. Her documentation and her code will be useful to many students beginning on their projects to making games. Beth showed a lot of details.

We may have only three talks - after listening to these three projects, I thought I have heard thirty presentations. These are awesome progress by these students.