[math4] Class start-up

[Frederick Grose]

With the growing interest in this project and class, perhaps Eric could
enter a request for teleconference support for his lecture on 13 March.
 That way, folks could, at least, hear the lecture and share a similar
grounding with the students in class.

On Mon, Mar 9, 2009 at 1:53 PM, Karsten Wade <kwade at redhat.com> wrote:

> On Sun, Mar 08, 2009 at 03:51:39PM -0500, Stephen Jacobs wrote:
>
> > In general, in the Game Dev corner of the world, it's best to do a lot of
> > prototyping first. Ideally you churn throw away prototypes to use with
> > target audience members that focus on gameplay, so you don't get too
> married
> > to your first attempts. Scratch and Etoys are probably good for this as
> well
> > as for development.
>
> That's the part where my plans[1] come in.  I have a group of kids
> with XOs who are going to test the math activities.  This is a mostly
> dedicated group -- two to four girls whose have XOs specifically to
> test activities, and another two I can bring in for gaming (QA)
> sprints.  They are studying 3rd through 5th grade math, so this lands
> perfectly in the middle (new content for some, review for others.)  We
> should be able to test multiple times a week, to keep up with
> iterative development.  We'll document what we learn, to help grow
> this QA program.
>
> This is the first part of the scheme; we hope to spin up some parents
> and/or older siblings to help with the Python, but the 'XO Kids QA
> team' is first.
>
> - Karsten
>
> [1]
> http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/User:Quaid/XO_development_plan#Activity_development_and_testing
> --
> Karsten 'quaid' Wade, Community Gardener
> http://quaid.fedorapeople.org
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