Ballistics, Rocketry and Research
It used to be that rockets and research were two words that went together. Now, rockets aren’t quite as cool. For example the ESTES curriculum material has out of date software, naturally the algorithms still work, but the software uses old software and expects older video cards. As Cay Horstmann pointed out at the CCSTC held at the National University on April 3 and April 4, 2009, old software and data is often hard or impossible to read. Cay also made some other good points about the lack of students actually reading code and mostly writing code. Cay is definitely a good guy and apparently a prolific writer, so make sure you take a look at his excellent blog on Java and his journeys. I can only aspire to do as good a job with F# as Cay has done with his work on Java, he certainly has made an impression on many students.
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Ballistics, Rocketry and Research
