COBBLE
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Background
COBBLE stands for COllaBorative Board game Learning Environment. It is a Toolkit for exploring Finite Mathematics. Finite mathematics encompasses the topics of probability, combinatorics, set theory, and propositional logic and game theory, and tackles questions such as “How likely is it that I will win the lottery?” “How many ways can seven people make use of two cars to go to the movies given that each car can hold at most 5 people?” and “If 15 people like eggs or ham, 4 like only eggs, and 7 like only ham, how many like both eggs and ham?” Finite mathematics is increasingly being taught as modules in elementary and middle school mathematics courses, enabling students to reason about probability and counting. COBBLE will be an environment where students can easily create objects such as a deck of cards, urns full of colored marbles, or 6, 8 and 20-sided die, as well as add their own custom-designed mathematical objects. They can then use these objects to explore the resulting mathematical properties, which will be calculated automatically by COBBLE.
Functionality
The Dice Menu is up and running. Users can create 6 or 20 sided die at the click of a button, or choose the Custom Die Menu. Here, the user can choose the color and sides of the die.
Created die are randomly dropped on the screen. To roll the die, hover the mouse and hit the space bar.
Currently, the color option for Die shows up under an Ubuntu Emulator for Sugar, but not on the XO laptops (Tested on laptops from G1G1 build)
Screen Shots
Coming Soon
Contributors
COBBLE is being developed at Centenary College of Louisiana by Mark Goadrich and Nolan Baker.
Roadmap and future features
PreAlpha Working Die objects Alpha Sharing between XOs Beta Cards, Boards, Containers, Tokens Chalkboard for recording ingame state Chat Box Visibility, Ownership of Private Objects Save and Load from Journal Release Able to easily add own modules
Dependencies
Cell Management is built with Pygame using the OLPCgames wrapper.
To Do
Die creation works, but the colors are not properly altered and blited on the XO. Proceed to Alpha level
Comments, Remarks, Suggestions
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