RPI
A team of undergraduates at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute has been commissioned to develop an activity to teach children basic math skills. We will be using this page to organize our progress and provide status.
The project is organized into two phases: first, build a simple end-to-end tic-tac-toe activity to become familiar with developing an activity from the ground up (see below). Second, to design and implement the math activity, utilizing what we've learned from the tic-tac-toe experience.
The Team
- Frank Tobia (tobiaf2@rpi.edu)
- Ryan Leary (learyr@rpi.edu)
- Ben Classen (classb@rpi.edu)
- Allen Lavoie (lavoia@rpi.edu)
- David Pizzuto (pizzud@rpi.edu)
Math activity
Milestones
Come up with milestones
Week 0
- All XML formats designed
- Problem format (Ryan)
- Goal format
- Persistence of state format
- Resource & Market format (Frank)
- Proof of concept implementations for parsing all XML formats
- Think about graphics for goals, resources, etc.
Week -1 (May 1st)
- May 1st - testing and extension
Subsystems
- Graphics module
- Sound module
- Question module
- Engine module
Requirements
- Multiplayer
- Collaborative
Useful Links
Hosting: http://code.google.com/p/rpi-olpc/
SVN book / tutorial: http://svnbook.red-bean.com/
Sugar pyDoc: http://www.vrplumber.com/sugar-docs/sugar.html
Activity Tutorial (useful for an idea of how Sugar likes to run things, as well as directory structure): http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Sugar_Activity_Tutorial
pyGTK Activity Tutorial (has a nice code structure): http://wiki.laptop.org/go/PyGTK/Hello_World_Tutorial
Eclipse IDE: http://www.eclipse.org/downloads/
Subclipse SVN plugin for Eclipse: http://subclipse.tigris.org/install.html
Pydev Python plugin for Eclipse: http://pydev.sourceforge.net/download.html