[Kylan's Blog] Home for the Week

Today Jaron and I traveled to the west side of the state for spring break. We got an early start and arrived home just before 1PM. It's nice to be back over here again, and it's especially good to see my folks. Both Mom and Dad seemed excited to see us. Tonight we had salmon for dinner and went over to the Pasquans' to watch Premonition.

My dad is working on moving his classroom to a new campus, and one of his goals is to get a working transmitter simulator his students can use. He asked if I could write some software to simulate different types of transmitter-related alarms and I said I could give it a try. Since I've been really happy with NetBeans lately, I decided to take my first shot at GUI programming in Java. So far it's going pretty well, and I'm gaining a lot of exposure to Swing and AWT. One thing I still need to figure out is how to play sound clips to represent alarms. There doesn't seem to be any super-simple way to do this, so it might have to get creative. Once I get a little further along I'll post the code along with some screen shots.

With this new project, I now have three major goals to accomplish over spring break:

1. Write a 20-page literature review
2. Work out all of the kinks in my research simulator
3. Finish at least a beta version of my transmitter simulator

Should be a busy break.