Fwd: Open Simulator with Physics Engine

[Jameson "Chema" Quinn]

Oops, I sent the below off-list by mistake.

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From: Jameson Chema Quinn <jquinn at cs.oberlin.edu>
Date: Fri, Feb 15, 2008 at 2:28 AM
Subject: Re: Open Simulator with Physics Engine
To: Joshua Minor <j at lux.vu>


Making a good learning simulator is an art. Too few degrees of freedom, and
it is just boring; but too many are sometimes just distracting from the
concept being discovered. There are some good ones in Java at

http://phet.colorado.edu/web-pages/simulations-base_es.html

... these have gone through usability testing, and each is tailored to
learning a related concept set. I do not know how open the University of
Colorado would be to putting these under some kind of open license, but it
is certainly worth a shot - they distribute them pretty openly.

Jameson
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