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SYNOPSIS |
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My project is to implement a typing tutor in OLPC. The tutor will have a practice session, "Fish Catcher" game, support for all XO keymaps and written languages, a progress tracking graphs and the ability to locally customize the program. I am very familiar with tuxtype, typing tutor. So I will consider tuxtype as a case study and will develop Typing Turtle. |
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{{OBX activity|[[Image:Activity-typingturtle.png]]|Games}} |
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{{OBX source dev|activities/typing-turtle}} |
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{{OBX team|[[User:Prakhar|Prakhar Agarwal]],[[User:Khushbu|Khushbu Mohta]],[[User:Scheppke|Kate Scheppke]],[[User:Wade|Wade Brainerd]]}} |
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PROJECT |
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I will be developing a new typing tutor from scratch. I will use SDL(Simple direct Media Layer) Library. |
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= Typing Turtle = |
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This project will have mainly three parts. |
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Typing Turtle is an interactive touch typing trainer for the XO laptop. |
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First and foremost any typing tutor should have a good practice session. For small children it is very necessary to familiarize with the keyboard and keys with the help practice session. Image of a keyboard will be shown in the background. And also the key to be pressed will be highlighted on the corresponding finger of the hand image which shown with the keyboard image. |
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It features a sequence of lessons designed to gradually introduce students to touch typing, teaching them a few keys at a time until they have mastered the entire keyboard. Fun graphics, sounds and characters make for an entertaining experience. An on-screen keyboard with overlaid hand positions shows the correct way to press each key, encouraging good typing habits. |
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In the second part I will implement a tutor game. The game called "Fish Catcher" has a turtle waiting to catch fishes falling through the screen. To catch a fish the user has to press the corresponding character shown on the surface of the fish. This game will have 15 levels. |
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==== Development status ==== |
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I will add support for all XO keymaps and written languages, a progress tracking graphs and the ability to locally customize the program as the third part of my project. |
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Typing Turtle has migrated to Sugar Labs. Its new home page is here: http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Activities/Typing_Turtle |
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== Comments == |
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DELIVERABLES |
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Your comments/suggestions are important to us. Feel free to use this space. |
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{{Activity page |
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|icon=Image:Activity-typingturtle.png |
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PART 1. Practice section |
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|genre=Other |
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|short description=A typing tutor game. |
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|long description=A set of game interfaces for learning to type. |
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|contact person=User:Prakhar , User:Wade |
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PART 3. Additional Features |
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|activity source=http://dev.laptop.org/git/activities/typing-turtle/ |
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i) support for all XO keymaps and written languages |
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|language codes=en |
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II) a progress tracking graphs |
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|related project=TuxType |
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iii) features to locally customize the program |
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|team=User:Scheppke , User:Khushbu |
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|bundle URL=http://activities.sugarlabs.org/en-US/sugar/addon/4026 |
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PROJECT SCHEDULE |
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|releases=8.1.0 (703) |
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|devel status=3. Alpha |
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April 14,2008: Start of the project. |
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Start discussing with OLPC developers about the project and |
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detailed study of sugar environment and SDL library will be undertaken. |
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May 26,2008: Start Part 1 of the project |
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June 20,2008: Finish the practice section. Start revising this feature and fixing bugs. |
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June 25,2008: Start PART 2 of the project. |
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July 10,2008 : Finish "fish catcher" game. |
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Start revising these features and fixing bugs. |
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July 15,2008: Start work on PART 3 of the project. |
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August 5,2008: Finish PART 3 of the project. Start Testing and fixing bugs considering the feed back from the OLPC developers. |
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August 18,2008: Complete the project |
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ABOUT ME |
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First name: Mobin |
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Name: Mobin Mohan |
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Email: mobinmohan@gmail.com |
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Time zone: GMT+5:30 |
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Age:21 |
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Education: Computer Science Engineering |
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Blog URL: mobin-m.livejournal.com |
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I Mobin. M, am an eight semester Computer Science & Engineering student from kerala, India. I am a skilled programmer in C/C++, Java, Python, and also very familiar with SVN version control system. I have been contributing actively in the free software community for the last three years. I am one of the developers of tuxtype[1]. I have added Indic language support in tuxtype as my GSoC 2007 project for swathanthram malayalam computing[2]. Indic language support in tuxtype [3] backed foss India award also[4]. I am quite familiar with tuxtype development team, the source code and working in the repository. This experience will help me to start working on any FOSS project. So, I am confident that I will succeed in bringing about such a typing tutor in OLPC. |
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[1] https://alioth.debian.org/users/mobin-guest/ |
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[2] http://code.google.com/soc/2007/smc/about.html |
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[3] http://www.openitis.com/openitis/project.php |
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[4] http://www.efytimes.com/efytimes/24867/news.html |
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ADDITIONAL DETAILS |
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Do you have experience working with open source projects. |
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I am one of the developer of tuxtype typing tutor. |
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https://alioth.debian.org/users/mobin-guest/ |
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Have you designed and carried out an entire (software, hardware, other) project before? |
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I have added Indic language support in tuxtype. This was to implement a malayalam typing tutor. (http://code.google.com/soc/2007/smc/about.html) |
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What human languages and scripts do you read and write? |
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READ : English, Hindi, Malayalam |
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Write : English, Hindi, Malayalam. |
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Would you be able to visit Boston once during the course of the summer for a gathering with other interns and developers? |
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Yes I can. I am very happy to work as well as to mingle with developers and users. |
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Latest revision as of 21:50, 6 September 2010
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Typing Turtle
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Typing Turtle
Typing Turtle is an interactive touch typing trainer for the XO laptop.
It features a sequence of lessons designed to gradually introduce students to touch typing, teaching them a few keys at a time until they have mastered the entire keyboard. Fun graphics, sounds and characters make for an entertaining experience. An on-screen keyboard with overlaid hand positions shows the correct way to press each key, encouraging good typing habits.
Development status
Typing Turtle has migrated to Sugar Labs. Its new home page is here: http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Activities/Typing_Turtle
Comments
Your comments/suggestions are important to us. Feel free to use this space.
Activity Summary
| Icon: | Sugar icon::Image:Activity-typingturtle.png |
| Genre: | Activity genre::Other |
| Activity group: | ,|x|Activity group::x}} |
| Short description: | Short description::A typing tutor game. |
| Description: | Description::A set of game interfaces for learning to type. |
| Maintainers: | ,|x|Contact person::x}} |
| Repository URL: | Source code::http://dev.laptop.org/git/activities/typing-turtle/ |
| Available languages: | ,|x|Available languages::x}} |
| Available languages (codes): | ,|x|Language code::x}} |
| Pootle URL: | |
| Related projects: | Related projects,|x|Related projects::x}} |
| Contributors: | ,|x|Team member::x}} |
| URL from which to download the latest .xo bundle | Activity bundle::http://activities.sugarlabs.org/en-US/sugar/addon/4026 |
| Last tested version number: | |
| The releases with which this version of the activity has been tested. | ,|x|Software release::x}} |
| Development status: | Devel status::3. Alpha |
| Ready for testing (development has progressed to the point where testers should try it out): | ,|x|Ready for testing::x}} |
| smoke tested : | |
| test plan available : | |
| test plan executed : | |
| developer response to testing : |
