For my Junior Project, I have decided to combine two subjects that interest me very much, Chemistry and Computer Programming. The language in which I am coding in is Java, which is used in over 3 billion devices such as printers, phones, and even DVD players. Using Java, I will write a program which takes a measurement of grams from the user and converts them to the moles of the substance desired. In this case, the substances will be atoms from the Periodic Table of Elements.
So far, I have created a simple calculator which returns the amount of moles of Carbon when the user inputs grams. If the user chooses a different element however, the code will not return a value, as the conversion methods for other atoms have not yet been written. Using an application known as GitHub, I am able to share my program with my mentors, allowing them to comment and make suggestions about my code, allowing me to improve it further.
As a mole is defined as 602 billion trillion of something, moles of different objects can have different masses. A mole is a very large measurement, for example, a mole of ping pong balls would cover the Earth in a layer that is 60 miles thick. However, when referencing atoms, a mole can be as be as small as 1 gram in mass, and only reaches up to 270 grams at the most. The next step for my program is to add the grams to moles conversion rates of each atom, allowing the user to access each element.
