Diversity Metrics prototype
Explore pressing environmental issues
Books by Ginger Booth
Explore ancient Mesopotamia
Single source iOS / Android / web.
Environmental Simulators
University level mathematics
Three Pond Chemistry apps are the first of my new HTML5 CourseWare to reach Yale grad students. An animated pond is paired with worksheets to explore solubility, acid-base equilibria, and air-water partitioning.
Tech: Cross-browser, including mobile.
The Habitable Planet is a Webby-honored Annenberg course on environmental issues. I built 5 simulators for the course in Flash in 2007, and reimplemented them with the latest data in 2014-2015.
Tech: HTML5 cross-browser, including mobile. Ported from original Flash Actionscript.
My Calm Act climate apocalyptic series begins with End Game. Set in Connecticut, ordinary people choose extraordinary ways to face a climate and world gone haywire.
I know, the stereotype is that programmers can't write. I love writing.
ArchaeoSim 4 is the first major teaching simulator on my new HTML5 CourseWare base. It debuted to undergrads at Yale University in Fall 2014.
ArchaeoSim explores sudden climate change in a rain-fed farming civilization in ancient Mesopotamia.
Tech: Cross-browser, including mobile.
Mandalar is the classic children's pattern blocks, only better. Mobile touchscreens are a natural for this math manipulative. Tap to rotate, snap 'em together. Zoom in, zoom out, group, scale, color - even draw fractals. Fills the screen from mobile phone, to tablet, to 24" monitor, to SmartBoard. Check out my NumBlox cusenaire rods, too.
Tech: ActionScript 3/AIR for single-source apps for iOS, Android, and desktop.
James Lovelock invented DaisyWorld (on paper) to explain the Gaia Hypothesis - that living things interact with their environment to keep their own living conditions within comfortable bounds. I felt this cried out for a simulator demonstration, and built it as the first proof-of-concept for online CourseWare in 1997.
Tech: Originally in Java, now in ActionScript 3. Responsive layout, like most of my apps.
It's been a joy to create fractals and other math teaching simulators for Professor Michael Frame of Yale University. The Differential Equation Plotter is our most recent offering. A vector heatmap shows the tendency of the system at initial points across the plane.
My degree is actually in applied math, with computer science.
Tech: ActionScript 3, full-screen responsive.
I'm a freelance Web programmer with decades of experience, largely in interactive graphics. I've been developing for the Internet since 1994.
I focus on single source technologies for cross-browser, cross-platform support, including mobile. I do the full software life-cycle, software architecture through specification, design, development, documentation, deployment, and ongoing support. Or whatever subset you need.
I often subcontract for interactive marketing firms, bidding and implementing the tricky parts, such as product configurators, or a custom data-driven interactive map. But most of my Portfolio was developed as high-level teaching courseware for universities such as Yale.
Expertise includes:
Please see my Portfolio of simulators and other online applications. And my Resume.
I also love to write - both technical writing and fiction, plus a bit of graphic storytelling (manga and story illustrations). Excel at specifications, proposals, and documentation. My latest book is Indoor Salad: How to Grow Vegetables Indoors.
Available for a wide range of Web programming and technical writing - please contact me.