User:Prakhar/Weekly Updates
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TYPING TURTLE
This page summarizes various activities that have been a part of the development process of game based typing turtle activity.
May 1-May 7, 2008
- Introduction period with my mentor Mr. Wade Brainerd and co-developer Ms. Kate Scheppke
- Laid out plans with my mentor. Kate will work on basic typing activity and I'll work on game-based typing activity.
- Studied various current typing games like TuxType.
- Wade conducted a survey to examine our present technical background.
- Wade prepared a short tutorial for us to refer to equip ourselves with required technical skills.
May 8-May 19, 2008
- Went into university exams. No progress.
May 20-May 27, 2008
- Started reading about Sugar HIG and Sugar Activity Tutorial
- Switched from Ubuntu to Fedora.
- Emulated the Sugar environment on my PCs.
May 28-June 4, 2008
- Started working on the game designs.
- First mock-ups released.
- Received my XO-1 on June 3
- Dedicated 2 days to explore the XO environment.
June 5-June 11, 2008
- Attended a Python workshop which really set the tone for the project.
- Almost final mock-ups released. Still scope for improvement.
- Converting the mock-ups into Python classes and methods.
- Documented all the work on wiki.
June 12-June 19, 2008
- Started working on Python and PyGTK by referring to respective tutorials.
- Working on art work required in the activity interface.(like turtle, bubbles etc.) mock-ups will be uploaded soon.
- Browsed the source code of existing activities in XO. I was unable to comprehend the code due to lack of python experience
June 20-July 3, 2008
- Learnt Python from byteofpython.org and the official tutorial from python.org
- Studied PyGTK tutorial from pygtk.org and completed all the related exercises
- Studied JSON from json.org
- This period involved learning all the technologies related to the project so that I can start coding.
July 4-July 12, 2008
- Again browsed the source code of existing activities in XO. I could easily understand each and everything.
- Studied the Activity Tutorial again and also the latest Sugar Handbook from OLPC Austria.
- Successfully completed my first activity- "HelloWorld" as per the guidelines in above mentioned two tutorials :)
- Finally started my project- TypingTurtle.activity. A great relief for me :) But it was just the beginning of a roller coaster ride ahead
