We are having a short work week this time because of the national holiday of July 4th. We have a full FOSSbox of mentors, including some from Red Hat and a Mozilla rep. Its quite the place to be hacking atm. On Monday, I was still hacking on the Sash activity. This activity is going to be what the students use to view their badges that they earn. If anyone wants to contribute to this project, it's GitHub repo is located Here. I've gotten Sash to the point where ...

Midterm Powows Today I started the ticket of creating a Spanish version of Lemonade Stand. Yesterday I called it El Puesto de Limonada, after this picture. So I started off by googling "XO Laptop GetText" and hitting up the first result. As it instructed, I went through the code for Lemonade Stand and made each message script be convertible, like so: "This ...

Merry Christmas! Today it is not christmas, but it is day 25 of the Summer Undergraduate Research Fellowship, and of my time in the FOSSbox. For some reason though, whenever I hear the number 25 in accordance with calendars and/or day tracking, my first thought is of Christmas. Regardless, for this week I will take a much needed break from slamming my head against the wall for school servers, so to speak. Today [LMacken](https:/ ...

Another lovely week of FOSS has ended… Take a look at the highlights of what I worked on this week (including a scribbly brainstorm sheet ): :D AttachmentSize blog.gif 223.67 KB ...

This week I had a couple of big success. First, I solved my (most) of my problems with avatar file generating. I also created a handful of templates that I think should fit a variety of projects. Finally, I introduced an old project that I had been working on with Python Turtle and will hopefully get some help working on it. My two main problems with the avatar generating were Unicode characters in usernames and difficulty handling all of the command line options we were having in log_generator ...

Another Work From Home Friday! So today I set out to install the 0.7 edition of school server on the XO laptop that I've been messing around on. I followed these instructions. To install it on an XO though, I would need to Install it from USB. I had some trouble setting up the boot usb: The script kept saying that I needed to unmount the drive after checking to ...

Monday: Finishing up Menu Screens -Finished navigation and functionality of the main menu screen -Finished navigation and functionality of the difficulty screen and its effects with elements within the game -Finished navigation and functionality of the tutorial screen, still needs info text Tuesday: New Menu UI Live -Finished adding info text to each screen in the tutorial -Implemented a basic challenge mode with an end condition. The end condition is completing one summer whi ...

A Discovery!!!!!!!!! So today I talked with veteran FOSSboxer Qalthos, code wizard. Though he wasn't in the FOSSbox this week until today, he's been working on school server stuff as well. Previously, while I've been making a fool of myself, he set up a school server on a virtual machine on his laptop, only to have it be unpingable. Then he set one up on some virtual space on "the boat," an intense server watched over by Computer Science House. I had often confus ...

While waiting for some images to start loading in different item sets, like hamburger and ice cream stand, I have decided to beginning implementing reputation and locations. Reputation helps influence the amount of cups of lemonade that you can sell during a day. The algorithm before said that if it was a cloudy day, you would sell 60% of the max amount of cups you can sell and if it was a hot day you would sell out. This has to do with balancing the game because this allowed players to rack up ...

Productively Lost part Deux Today I messed around with the XSCE a bit more. I had been taking notes on different functions for a while now, but after understanding the main functions I realized the answers I were looking for weren't in there. I was only seeing how it was supposed to work, and being sad when it didn't. Unfortunately I had bit off more than I could chew with this task. Perhaps the reason I agreed to solve the school se ...