Talk:LetsType
Hello Everyone! Please give your feedback and comments here. It will help me in analyzing myself and my mistakes. Thanks for participating.
- This sounds promising! You mentioned balloons, I think something like that is a good way to do it, you can have them either floating around the screen and they get popped when you hit the key, or you can have them float into a word where you have to pop them left to right (for western typefaces, at least). It would also be nice to be able to see your progress over time, maybe something like charts of words per minute for free floating characters (characters per minute?) and a different series for words, it can be motivating to see how far you've come already!
- Also, it seems to me like it would be a good idea to implement support for multiple languages from the start. I'm new to the OLPC myself but I imagine there is a python native and OLPC standard way to do this that isn't too hard, plus most of your stuff (beyond basic characters) would come from dictionaries or word lists anyway. As you said this is a requested app, so if you have multi-language support by the time you bug test (end of the summer your timeline says), then others could just take it and add localizations without worrying about having to test for regressions themselves, getting it out there that much quicker
- Bobbypowers 17:59, 28 March 2008 (EDT)
Other keyboard layouts
- Dvorak keyboard, please
- Consider adding one-handed keyboard layouts for the disabled
There are 30 modern writing systems, mostly alphabetical, but some requiring IMEs, including Chinese hanzi, Japanese kana and kanji, Korean hangeul and hanja, and Ethiopic. I can assist with layouts and elementary exercises, and in some cases with fairly detailed information on the order of lessons.--Mokurai 05:17, 2 April 2008 (EDT)
not porting is an advantage????
Somebody might not understand Open Source development. You do way better if you can share code.
Tux Type is a program that could be ported. It's quite alive, with numerous GSoC projects. You could port that.
- Initially my idea was that only, porting TuxType to XO. But, during IRC discussions I was informed that it can not be ported because its built using SDL which is still not very well supported on OLPC-XO. I'm still open to the idea. Just need to know whether its possible or not. Thanks for the feedback. Prakhar 21:30,13th April 2008 (UTC)
Multiuser Activity
Some suggestions on ways that 'LetsType' could be ectended into a multiuse activity.
- Two or more students
- Competitive (eg. like a 'handball game')
- The current 'winner/king' sets the typing activity for the other participants (the serve)
- Other participants then respond as quickly and accurately as they can (the return)
- Players are ranked and the best 'return' then becomes 'king'.
- Instructive - Like competitive, but the Leader is fixed.
- Students only see their own results.
- Competitive with teams (students can arrange thenselves into groups/teams from 2 to number-of-players/2 in size).
- Non-competitive
- Some form of collaborative effort.
