Bryan is a closet Tablet PC developer–well, at least a Tablet designer. Whenever we meet for lunch, we inevitably get into designing some Tablet app. This time was no different.
After finishing off our Teriyaki Chicken at Samurai Sams, we began inking out a simple geometry-helper program (yes, we pulled out the Tablet and sketched out this app idea in Journal). The idea is to use an adaptive triangle that displays values that can be determined from known, recognized dimensions and/or angles handwritten by the user. We figure it would be a great way for students to explore and experiment with various relationships in triangles.
Since our brainstorming session, I’ve been stealing a few minutes here and there to try to get a prototype running. (You know what I mean, sometimes I do a full rebuild on what I’m supposed to be working on even when an incremental build will do–just to get a few extra cycles to work on my fledgling app. 🙂 I really wanted to see what it would be like to see the Triangle Explorer running. Here’s a screenshot of my very first test of the new app.
In this example, I handwrote the “3” and “4” (the 90 degree angle was hardcoded–It’s a prototype after all) and the program calculated the two other angles and the length of the hypotenuse.
Kinda cool.
Writing for the Tablet is a blast.