/prog/ - help me out brahs

Name: Anonymous 2009-07-01 2:16

I'm really new to programming.
I wanna make a ray tracer java GUI.

where someone specifies the starting point and direction of rays of light by clicking on some field, specifies certain properties of the light ray (wavelength, frequency, etc).
then the user can build prisms as well as purely reflective objects in the field by connecting lines and specifying the index of refraction of each object.
then the user can observe the path of each ray through the refracting/reflecting objects, and by hovering their mouse over the ray at different points on the field, they can see the current properties of the ray at that point (wavelength, frequency, &c.).

Is this program a good starting project?
Am I setting my hopes too high?
any ideas at all?
Sry for noobing it up, but help me out brahs.

Name: Anonymous 2009-07-01 2:50

don't taze me brah

Name: Anonymous 2009-07-01 3:52

>ray tracer java

FAIL

Name: Anonymous 2009-07-01 4:15

>>2
You know I took a CS class at UF with the 'don't taze me brah' guy. Hes a pretty cool guy.

Name: Anonymous 2009-07-01 4:33

Hes a pretty cool guy.
But does he afraid of anything?

Name: Anonymous 2009-07-01 4:41

>>5
No.

Name: Anonymous 2009-07-01 8:12

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help me out brahs

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