Today I finished up some of our new menu features. In collaboration with the new tutorial screen I implemented, I added text info for each window explaining what each screens represents and what you will be doing in each one. My hope or goal is to present the new version of the game to children and not give any verbal instructions and have them navigate through the new interface and explore the tutorial and learn how to play just from that. Next task is get some kids for playtesting! ...

Bash Script Snorkeling So, as I mentioned previously, I'm taking notes on School Server code and scripts to understand what they consist of. However, it is still quite the rocky road, when I come across lines full of symbols I don't understand. For example: if [ "$1" = '-h' -o $# -gt 1 ]; then for file in 'find $DOMAIN_CONFIG_DIR -maxdepth 1 -type f -perm /u+x ! -name "*~" -print | sort' ; do ["${file%.cfsaved}" != "${file}" ] && continue ["${file%.rpmsave}" != "${file}" ] && continue ...

Today was another productive day here at the FOSS. I added a bunch of new creative events which was fun. Then I changed the events so that it gave a little breathing room to get the game started before the events started raining down to make impossible a little more playable. Then I spent some time playing around with the changes to the events to see if I could polish them out and make the game a little more balanced. I'm going to keep working on that for now but to keep the project productive I ...

This week was another long haul on the road to research. My goal for the whole week was to figure out how to get our activity, Lemonade Stand, to create a journal entry. Since I did know anything regarding the journal, I spent the majority of the week learning how the OLPC journal worked and what I needed to change or implement into our activity that would make it work. I started by using my most valuable resource, #sugar , and learned that the journal uses datastore to make its entries. [This ...

UGH!!!!! School-Servers Day 15: -> McNair Scholars program began -> Installed 2/3 of a School-Server -> Raked in dough in lemonade-stand -> TIL Big, established college networks don't like new networks being created within them. Day 16: -> Couldn't connect to the school-server I had installed -> Felt quite productively lost -> RocPy was a healthy and thriving programming-friendly experience -> TIL Programmers have ...

Fear of Failure Yay! today is Work from home friday!!!! However, it is also the start of my discontent. Today marks one week that I have tried and failed to implement a school server. I only have a week left to close the ticket. This is quite worrysome for me as I was the one who wrote up most of the tickets for the project, and assumed the role of community lead. With no one in my home to seek guidance or confidence from, I tried, unsucce ...

More Code/Cave diving Sadly no Threebean to help me search. However, I have not forgotten the most valuable command line call he has taught me so far: "grep -inr SEARCH_TERM * | less." For information on how that works, click... HERE. It's a previous blog post, from day 7.5, the day I lost count. So, as you recall from my post of day 17 I spoke a grand revelation about all unix commands be ...

It is now the end of the fourth week of this summer research program. This was a week full of interesting events. This was the first week with the full summer crew present all week. There was a power outage on Monday that made only some of us loose power, disrupting work for a few hours. Then on Wednesday, the boat went down causing trouble with the meeting logs and many of us from writing the blog posts on time. As for what I did this week, I found that because there was a lot of overlap on th ...

Monday: Base Implementation - I was able to get some new artwork from our amazing artist Jenn! I received the new screen for the profit mini game. - I began hocking up the new mini game screen to appear only if the player made any profit - Finished cleaning out the day logs Tuesday: Finishing Touches - Started throwing together the finishing functionality of the mini game screen allowing users to select different types of money and having the min ...

This week started off a little bumpy with a power outage that lasted a few hours and then a freak thunder/hail storm on Monday. On Wednesday the boat (a server the FOSSBox uses) went down Wednesday, slowing down everything and taking down FossBot. Finally, after a series of issues with Glade, we have shelved the GUI for now and have decided to instead work on producing some quality videos to send to Red Hat. As a part of these videos I want to highlight the work of Red Hat employees by making t ...