Corpo blah blah:
IkaTools is a web-based solution designed to provide an educational platform where students can interactively explore a varied assortment of problems in the context of Aerospace Engineering. The project aggregates several GUI tools while hiding the underlying complex algorithms and mathematics. The users can experiment with different parameters/configurations and visualize the behaviour of the algorithms in real time. The tools are mainly aimed at Aerospace Engineering students, although anyone with a general engineering background should be able to understand and use them too.
Layman's FAQ
🔹 Wat dis?
Just a ragtag bunch of tools I've created throughout the years to help my students learn some of the stuff we cover at the uni. Myself included, 'cuz I like dissecting algorithms and playing with them visually. Also, my engineer brain really enjoys building these thingies :}
🔹 Why web?
Originally I was releasing these tools as MATLAB compiled programs. For Windows. Which was, like, the standard not that many years ago. But now all the zoomers are coming to class with MacBooks. And iPads. And Android-based tablets. And who-knows-what-else. So ye, here's an OS-independent version for y'all. Enjoy.
🔹 Can i has the source code?
Nope. The whole point of this is to not show the underlying algorithms. Learning while building those algos is literally my students' job. They even get graded for it, imagine that.
🔹 You gonna add more stuff?
Forsooth! I do still have a metric f-ton of GUIs pending to migrate here (and I also keep creating new ones), but translating an entire codebase takes time and lots of blood sacrifices to the Great Old Ones. So I will add/improve stuff whenever I can. Or kidnap students to do it for me; whichever is more optimal.
🔹 Oooh, I wanna use these for my <insert cool real-world application here>!
... you seriously will gamble your life to some random-ass tools found on the wild over the Internet without a lick of verification, validation, peer-review or even a mere participation trophy from a certifying agency? Oh well, who am I to judge; congrats in advance for your entry on the Darwin Awards book, I guess. :V