Wrote some "personality" code, any feedback?

[scenefinale]

Greetings all,

I will be giving a small presentation to the Columbia Neuroscience Society on personality psychology next semester (and possibly a small series of video lectures for youtube or something) and to assist my presentation I have written a small and concise piece of software. This simple project aims to be a very small but practical helper for understanding and illustrating patterns in personality psychology. Below is a screen shot to give a general idea of the app.

Currently, the code (written in Scala) is in a private github repo. And as of right now, I plan on finishing up and implementing just a few more features and then, depending on community interest, probably turning the repo public (under an MIT license).

I am posting here with the hopes that a few well-informed INTPs wouldn't mind spending ~10 minutes with the application and giving me a bit of feedback or insight. I would not pay you for your help. But it would be greatly appreciated nonetheless (this tool was written for educational purposes, not for profit). If anyone has any feature requests, I would gladly consider those as well. For the time being, I would prefer communication via PMs but clearly you're free to post to the thread as well. Thank you all for your time and consideration.

 

[scenefinale]

Hello again!

I appreciate all the PMs! I should mention that this would require the scala-language to be installed for this code to be run. Doing so is relatively simple:

http://scala-lang.org/download/install.html

-Or-

Just download the scala-ide bundle (it's just eclipse with a built in scala plugin, no messing with the classpath):
http://scala-ide.org/download/sdk.html

If you have installed scala, it would be as simple as running the following commands:

$ unzip personality.zip; cd personality
$ scalac *.scala
$ scala GUI

Please let me know if you experience any issues I will gladly help troubleshoot. For what it's worth, I am using 2.10.4 but this should work with 2.11.1 just the same. Thanks again!

 

[DelusiveNinja]

I have been having trouble with eclipse. When I try to run the .exe it says:

A java Runtime Environment (JRE) or Java Development kit (JDK) must be available in order to run Eclipse. No Java virtual machine was found after searching the following locations:.......

I have been trying to troubleshoot this for a hour or so and now I'm using this page as a reference.

 

[scenefinale]

I have been having trouble with eclipse. When I try to run the .exe it says:

A java Runtime Environment (JRE) or Java Development kit (JDK) must be available in order to run Eclipse. No Java virtual machine was found after searching the following locations:.......

I trying to trouble shoot this for a hour or so and now I'm using this page as a reference.

Yes, java is a requirement for scala (as scala code is compiled into java bytecode). To check if you have java try this:
http://java.com/en/download/installed.jsp
Or open up a command terminal and give the command "java -version".

In the event that java is not installed, try this:
http://java.com/en/download/index.jsp

 

[Cognisant]

The Columbia Neuroscience Society takes MBTI seriously?

Oh that's sad

 

[scenefinale]

Yeah, so does Harvard, apparently https://www.facebook.com/events/258664547615451/ They must be completely out of their mind.

 

[scorpiomover]

Why would I want to download and install Scala if I don't have to? I'm a commercial programmer. I can read the source. If I really wanted to see a presentation, I'd look at screenshots, or want to see a demo run on a web page.

Where is the link to the original code that you wrote?

 

[scenefinale]

Why would I want to download and install Scala if I don't have to? I'm a commercial programmer. I can read the source. If I really wanted to see a presentation, I'd look at screenshots, or want to see a demo run on a web page.

Where is the link to the original code that you wrote?

I wasn't forcing anybody to install Scala

The code isn't released, if it's got my name attached to it I like to clean it up first. Right now it's in a working state but not polished as I'm still moving code around quite a bit.

Here's an update, but I'm actually in the middle of touching up the whole UI so it's going to change quite a bit..