A little over one year ago, I started a topic about your Summer 2014 goals and projects, like the one two years ago and three years ago. As I said last year and the year before, I never get everything I want done, and I doubt you guys do either, but I hope that organizing our collective thoughts on what we want to accomplish will help. In years past, other people talked about coding projects, academic endeavors, travel, relaxing, and much more, and I hope you all have a good idea of what you plan to do this summer as well. To blatantly steal from my post last year (and the year before):
For me, the list looks something like the following:
Professional
:: Write and defend my doctoral thesis
:: Continue planning the next stage of my professional career with my adviser
:: Update personal website if I have time
:: Work on code-named "Hilarious" project with Cemetech staff
Programming
:: Finish Graph3DC for the TI-84 Plus C Silver Edition, and port it to the TI-84 Plus CE. I'm currently stuck at number and equation editing, because TI-OS.
:: Find the remaining CALCnet BASIC bugs on the non-TI-83+ calculators, test out Doors CS 7.3 with these fixes, and release.
:: Continue working on M-Game for the TI-84 Plus C Silver Edition and TI-84 Plus CE with geekboy and UnknownLoner.
:: Write SimVille for the TI-84+CE, alone or with others.
:: Make some kind of progess on the long-suffering SparseWorld project.
:: Add ez80 + TI-84+CE support to jsTIfied.
:: Add indentation support to SourceCoder and announce SourceCoder 3.0 non-beta.
:: If we get an App key, work on Doors C[S]E for the TI-84+CE.
Education/Cemetech
:: Create a lesson plan teaching rudimentary programming and electronics using the TI-83+/TI-84+/TI-84+CSE and an Arduino, built around the ArduinoTILP library.
:: Design a more flexible activity framework for the TI-84+CE
:: Start Contest #14 in early summer, at the latest.
Electronics
:: Experiment with the op-amp wrist-glove concept.
Books
:: Continue working with educational partners on unspecified programming projects.
:: Finish revisions to Using the TI-83 Plus/TI-84 Plus to create the TI-84 Plus CE-centric "Using the TI-84 Plus".
:: Make a series of videos based on "Using the TI-83 Plus/TI-84 Plus" exerpting specific examples.
:: Write proposal for new (non-calculator) book
I'm keeping it pretty tame (ha!) for this summer, and I'll see if I manage to finish more than I planned. What about all of you?
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In the past, I've found setting some specific (and realistic) goals are the best way to make sure that you feel like you had a productive summer, without making it too much of a drag. Of course, some of us are working jobs or internships and won't have the leisure for too much personal coding, engineering, and hacking, but you can still think of a fun side-project to work on. I know that almost all of us have unfinished projects or at least unrealized ideas, a topic I discussed at length in my most recent editorial. So what will it be? What programming, hacking, gaming, working, academic, and relaxing pursuits will you be attempting this summer? What do you want to have complete by the time September rolls around?
For me, the list looks something like the following:
Professional
:: Write and defend my doctoral thesis
:: Continue planning the next stage of my professional career with my adviser
:: Update personal website if I have time
:: Work on code-named "Hilarious" project with Cemetech staff
Programming
:: Finish Graph3DC for the TI-84 Plus C Silver Edition, and port it to the TI-84 Plus CE. I'm currently stuck at number and equation editing, because TI-OS.
:: Find the remaining CALCnet BASIC bugs on the non-TI-83+ calculators, test out Doors CS 7.3 with these fixes, and release.
:: Continue working on M-Game for the TI-84 Plus C Silver Edition and TI-84 Plus CE with geekboy and UnknownLoner.
:: Write SimVille for the TI-84+CE, alone or with others.
:: Make some kind of progess on the long-suffering SparseWorld project.
:: Add ez80 + TI-84+CE support to jsTIfied.
:: Add indentation support to SourceCoder and announce SourceCoder 3.0 non-beta.
:: If we get an App key, work on Doors C[S]E for the TI-84+CE.
Education/Cemetech
:: Create a lesson plan teaching rudimentary programming and electronics using the TI-83+/TI-84+/TI-84+CSE and an Arduino, built around the ArduinoTILP library.
:: Design a more flexible activity framework for the TI-84+CE
:: Start Contest #14 in early summer, at the latest.
Electronics
:: Experiment with the op-amp wrist-glove concept.
Books
:: Continue working with educational partners on unspecified programming projects.
:: Finish revisions to Using the TI-83 Plus/TI-84 Plus to create the TI-84 Plus CE-centric "Using the TI-84 Plus".
:: Make a series of videos based on "Using the TI-83 Plus/TI-84 Plus" exerpting specific examples.
:: Write proposal for new (non-calculator) book
I'm keeping it pretty tame (ha!) for this summer, and I'll see if I manage to finish more than I planned. What about all of you?