[Sugar-devel] My application idea : chess learning software. What do you think ?

[Walter Bender]

Feel free to grab elements from the GNU Chess activity [1]

regards.

-walter

[1] http://activities.sugarlabs.org/en-US/sugar/addon/4593

On Wed, Oct 2, 2013 at 7:35 AM, laurent bernabe
<laurent.bernabe at gmail.com> wrote:
> Thanks for your suggestion,
>
> But I haven't got the skill to make a similar program.
> I intented to do a very simpler program. (In a 2 dimensionnal view and with
> standards pieces images).
>
> Regards
>
>
>
> 2013/10/2 Gonzalo Odiard <gonzalo at laptop.org>
>>
>> You can get inspiration from a really good game named "Ajedrez y Leyendas"
>> [1]
>>
>> Interesting, Fernando Sansberro, head of Batovi Games Studio,
>> company who did the game to project Ceibal did a postmortem analysis
>> and say in the project worked 8 people over 11 months.
>>
>> If you want the document, I can share it (is in spanish)
>>
>> Gonzalo
>>
>> [1] http://www.ajedrezyleyendas.com/
>>
>>
>>
>> On Wed, Oct 2, 2013 at 6:44 AM, laurent bernabe
>> <laurent.bernabe at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>
>>> Hi,
>>>
>>> First, I apologize for the length of this mail.
>>> ______________________________________________
>>>
>>> My new idea (I've already exposed it on the mailing list, but without all
>>> specifications) :
>>>
>>> I think about making a new Web activity : a kind of chess learning
>>> software series.
>>> So, the first program I would like to code is about the pieces moves.
>>>
>>> How could it be presented ? I am thinking of the following pattern :
>>> For each piece kind :
>>>
>>> the theory part (special organization for the king, who can't be left in
>>> check) : where I use the board, if possible in a smart way with arrows (and
>>> why not animations if I can).
>>> the quizz part : where an alone piece is placed randomly on a square
>>> (special organisation for the pawn, which can't be neither on 1st rank nor
>>> on the 8th), and the student is asked if it can move to another square.
>>> the practical part (If I manage) : where this time, the piece is not
>>> alone, and the position is a valid position.
>>>
>>> Sound ambitious, doesn't it ?
>>>
>>> Also, I don't want to rely on GCompris software, for several reasons :
>>>
>>> I would like to manage software from my own, though GCompris offers some
>>> common features.
>>> I discussed with the GCompris maintainer, and he said me that GCompris
>>> chess programs rely on GNU chess engine.
>>> Finally, I want to write my program as a Web activity.
>>>
>>> ________________________________________________________________
>>>
>>> Advices request for Javascript :
>>>
>>> Also, I have encountered problems with Javascript for making classes,
>>> particularly for managing fields visibility :
>>>
>>> I know that var keyword help make them private.
>>> But I also know that, if I make them in the constructor, the constructor
>>> will be the only function that will be able to access them.
>>>
>>> So that makes me into trouble, as "I come" from a more POO language as
>>> Java.
>>>
>>> So how can I deal with it ? I've looked over Prototype library, but I
>>> haven't seen any talk about the fields visibility in the documentation.
>>>
>>> ____________________________________________________________________
>>>
>>> Regards
>>>
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>>
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