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During my senior year at Mississippi State, I worked as a research assistant under Dr. John T. Foley on WebTOP, located at http://www.webtop.org. I used Microsoft Visual J++ every day for a year to use Virtual Reality Modeling Language (VRML) to simulate physics lab experiments. For example, I wrote the "Laser" module, which simulates a laser beam projecting on a surface, and the "Reflection and Refraction" module, which I explain later.

While writing the "Reflection and Refraction" module, I discovered a bug in Visual J++ where the yellow-highlighted current statement line would get off by one line every time I jumped out of a file. Since my project had numerous files, the current statement would move farther away from the real ...