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

[laurent bernabe]

Thanks.


2013/10/3 Walter Bender <walter.bender at gmail.com>

> 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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>
> --
> Walter Bender
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