I don't think newbies use f77... but thinking about gui now is a bit to early I think
For those who don't know:
gui = graphical user interface
If you know something about programming gui's, preferably in a GNU/Linux type environment, then I'd prefer that you can teach the rest of us sooner than later. (Of course, after your mgr is finished.)
I think that gui's could accelerate learning efficiency and speed by a huge amount, and this way we could hopefully decrease the stress of exams for the students who have to do exams and let them concentrate on the fun of learning itself...
It also means that *I* could finally have time to learn some of the physics that I've always wanted to learn but never had time to, thanks to using GUI's to better organise the information and the explanations...
there is a nice tool called 'glade' which helps making gui in GTK+ (Gimp Toolkit) and GNOME - linking with your own functions is simple. I am not sure if there is a f77 wrapper for gtk+ ;) - there is not as I have just checked. but we can always make a front-end in c and link it to the rest of the soft - this should be simple.