The goal of the Step is to make studying physics easier, more interesting and productive. It helps users to gain intuitive understanding of how physics works by allowing them to easily construct various experiments, interactively simulate them to see how they will evolve, adjust various physical properties to see what will change.

The underlying simulation engine of Step is available as separate library called StepCore and can be used for other projects which requires simulation functionality.

Step is a KDE4 application, KDE libs have already made development of Step quite faster and more enjoyable. When Step will be ready it can perfectly complement the kdeedu module and extend the realm of kdeedu to the whole new subject.

I've been already developing Step for two months. With help of kdeedu people, Step has its own section on edu.kde.org: http://edu.kde.org/step/ . You can look at it to learn more about Step, its current state and future plans.

Currently Step still needs more features, polishing and (especially) GUI improvements to become actually useful for education and to be included in kdeedu module. As part of the Summer of Code I propose adding some of this features and improvements to Step in order to make it more useful and ready to become a part of the kdeedu.