Today was a long day. First we went to teach sixth graders about programming and free and open source software. To get there we had to leave at six thirty in the morning. We then gave a well received lesson that enlightened a new generation of potential programmers. After that we spent the rest of the day with a hack-a-thon finishing up what we had left to get open badges working for the sugar environment which finished up at about two in the morning. ...

Today was a day of preparation. We had to have fifteen working XOs to give an educational programming lesson tomorrow. On each of these XOs we were going to put SkyTime, Lemonade Stand, and Amazing Turtle, a maze exercise using turtle in python to teach young kids the fundamentals of programming. This sounds a whole lot simpler than it was. First of all we found out that the XOs did not have tkinter which is required to run turtle. Then when trying to get everything to work it was discovered tha ...

Just crossed my fingers and hoped that what I ended up submitting to develop wasn't complete broken and ruin the code for everyone. But I was asked to drop the code set up as many of the XOs as I could so that we could go to on a field trip and teach young minds about free and open source programming. So while my group was busy and I couldn't set up Lemonade Stand on my own because I didn't know at all how the code they put in to translated worked or why it was giving me an error I tried to set ...

So as I thought today didn't remotely go as planned. I spent most of the day going through and solving any conflicts that I noticed by tracing through the code by eye. Since I get an error because I don't have the translations on my box I've been unable to test to find what breaks after the merge. When I asked my group mates who worked on translations they helped me get the translation file but it still causes a problem that they were unable to help me with. So instead of being finished after to ...

It is now the end of the eigth week of this summer research program. Things are moving very fast here this summer. In only a couple weeks we are going to have to present on the research we have done. The game Lemonade Stand is looking great. All the new features and fixing up and fully implementing of all the features the previous teams had planned for Lemonade are finishing up nicely. The badges research is coming along as well. It isn’t quite finished yet but it does look like we might be able ...

So I spent the day finishing up all the merging to add in the code I created for the new ingredients and custom recipes. I also was present for the sugar meeting. I would have said something while I was there about the new sash activity we are creating in order to view and store Mozilla Open Badges on the XO while my the member of team Lemonade Stand who was supposed to talk about it was preoccupied. However, since I haven't worked on it myself I don't now much more about it than that it exists. ...

I went shopping for a business formal outfit for the White House yesterday, I left at 2:00. I thought I would be back in time for debrief, in time to write up a lovely wrap up blog. I got back at 8:00 pm. -___- I mean seriously? Seriously?!?? Well I found something so now I will be dressed appropriately. It didn’t even occur to me that I was missing debrief until I got back home and looked at the clock. (So sorry Remy!!) So anyway, I got some good stuff done yesterday. Finally finished the 1 ...

As I was repairing my code so that it would work properly with the changes within develop I noticed there were a bunch of places where making a tiny mistake in the customizing of the stand would crash the whole game. Some of these things I had fixed in the develop branch but someone unfixed them. So after repairing my code and making sure it that it met the pep8 standards I went through and strengthened all the weak spots in Lemonade Stand that I notic ...

Yesterday was a slow day of research and development. As usual, it took most of the day to finally get to the interesting bits. SO, lets start where the fun begins. First, a small revelation regarding sugar activities. If you're programming a prospective activity, write the program first in python (so that it works on you're PC, box, etc..). AFTER your activity works just the way you want it to work on your machine, port it over to sugar by importing your sugar library and placing all of your co ...

Today is my 21st Birthday :D I got some good stuff done today. I got the printing process started for the decals on the new ELF Bike. I got two hundred fliers printed. I also worked on some logos and made a noodle girl to run the noodle stand. (attached) AttachmentSize noodleStand.png 12.21 KB ...