Summer 2016 Week 8 (7/19/2016)

Even with Pizzas we are unable to attract students to come and attend our weekly meeting. C'est la vie!

Avi ( Servo Group https://rcos.io/projects/servo/servo/profile)  talked about the progress (close to PR)

Haoxin and Ruiqi (YACS https://rcos.io/projects/yacs-rcos/yacs/profile) are making good progress. Haoxin has pushed his first changes.

Graigon (Full Screen Pokemon
https://rcos.io/projects/JoshuaKGoldberg/FullScreenPokemon/profile ) is progressing along.

Brain and Jacob (RPI Tours https://rcos.io/projects/wtg/RPI_Tours_iOS/profile) is making a steady progress fixing bugs - on schedule to be released this Fall.

Kevin (Module Game Engine https://rcos.io/projects/AaronPerl/Module/profile) is working on command line interface to the project.

Jason Lee (Tally https://rcos.io/projects/jzblee/tally/profile) is progressing along.


Students are learning - I think I am learning more than what the students are learning.

Summer 2016 Week 7 ( 7/12/2016)

We had a better turn out than last week. I have decided to contribute Pizza to serve as an enticement.

Rowan and Avi ( Servo Group https://rcos.io/projects/servo/servo/profile) talked about their progress. It is going as planned.  Rowan is learning a lot of new things.

Sida (Module Game Engine https://rcos.io/projects/AaronPerl/Module/profile) is working on command line interface to the project.

Wyatt (yIotTester https://rcos.io/projects/wyattkroemer/yiottester/profile) has created a rcos page. He plans to blog about what he has learned so far.

Haoxin (YACS https://rcos.io/projects/yacs-rcos/yacs/profile) is pushing his shortened description of courses.

Ruiqi(Liquidity https://rcos.io/projects/kenma95/liquidity/profile) is  back on track - knows which javascript visualization libraries to use,

Graigon (Full Screen Pokemon https://rcos.io/projects/JoshuaKGoldberg/FullScreenPokemon/profile ) is resolving some of the issues in the github page.


Brain and Jacob (RPI Tours https://rcos.io/projects/wtg/RPI_Tours_iOS/profile) is making a steady progress fixing bugs - on schedule to be rleased this Fall.


Good Progress is achieved by the by the students. A few  students tried to explain to me the nuances of Pokemon-Go which is taking the world by storm. Pokemon Go uses Unity as  a game engine which many of RCOS students (and GSAS students) use at RPI http://www.nytimes.com/2016/07/14/technology/unity-technologies-maker-of-pokemon-go-engine-swells-in-value.html

Summer 2016 Week 6 (5th July 2016)

I am attending my first meeting of RCOS for this summer. It is hard to believe that already 6 weeks are gone (past the half way point). Because of the holiday weekend and the beginning of Summer C, attendance was a bit thin.

yacs https://rcos.io/projects/yacs-rcos/yacs/profile group was attended by Haoxin Luo - He is making progress meeting up with yacs group over the slack channel (Ruyou was not present and not in the Observatory )

Modular Game Engine https://rcos.io/projects/AaronPerl/Module/profile is represented by Sida Chen - He wants to test his code running in BulletPhysics extension - He is able to contact Aaron

yIoTTester project involving Raspberry Pi work is done by Wyatt Kroemer - He has developed some libraries - He is trying to use some of the prior developed libraries. This project is not in Observatory.

Fullscreen Pokemon project https://rcos.io/projects/JoshuaKGoldberg/FullScreenPokemon/profile  is done by Graigor. He is writing unit tests. Josh is doing a great job of mentoring him.

Mozilla Servo project https://rcos.io/projects/servo/servo/profile is being done steadily by Avi 

RPI Tours project  https://rcos.io/projects/wtg/RPI_Tours_iOS/profile  is being done by Jacob and Brian - They are making a steady progress. They are contacting th admissions office for feedback. One of the feautures they are trying to introduce is to start the tour any where.

I learned a lot more than what you could teach. Time well spent.