Re: [Sugar-devel] Participating in Google Code-In

2019-12-03 Thread Vaibhav Aren
Use a Video capture tool from What I can see is you are using macOS. What we need is gifs for the various blocks that show their working. Note:- A GIF Is Just an Animated Image In its simplest form, a GIF (pronounced “gif” or “jiff”) is just an image file. You just have to create new gifs and

Re: [Sugar-devel] Participating in Google Code-In

2019-12-03 Thread Abhay Malik
Turtle Blocks Issue: Change the readme images to the new UI Hey, Hope you all are doing well, I currently claimed a new task (turtle block issue: Change the readme image to the new ui) so I’m not really sure as of where to begin?, and whether we only add one picture or multiple to

Re: [Sugar-devel] Participating in Google Code-In

2019-12-03 Thread omkar relkar
Thanks a lot. We will in touch Nice to meet Best of luck to you too On Tue, 3 Dec, 2019, 22:03 Abhay Malik, wrote: > Hey omkar, > It’s good to meet you, I’m also learning and I generally > ask doubts in the mail thread and you too should create one and ask your > doubts here

Re: [Sugar-devel] Participating in Google Code-In

2019-12-03 Thread Abhay Malik
Hey omkar, It’s good to meet you, I’m also learning and I generally ask doubts in the mail thread and you too should create one and ask your doubts here via email, best of luck completing your tasks. As of now there is no WhatsApp group but some of the people here also talk on

Re: [Sugar-devel] Participating in Google Code-In

2019-12-03 Thread Abhay Malik
Hey, Hope this mail finds you all well. I am really excited to do the GCI, I recenty finished my first task (create a pull request) and it is up for review, it was a really good experience starting to know how to use Git Hub and I was just wondering, since I know python do you recommend

Re: [Sugar-devel] Participating in Google Code-In

2019-12-01 Thread James Cameron
Welcome Abhay. Nice game, thanks. Well done for a first time. I've a few suggestions, in no particular order; 1. the game initially starts with the snake moving very quickly. but slows down on the first change of direction; perhaps it should start at the speed that it means to go on with, 2.

Re: [Sugar-devel] Participating in Google Code-In

2019-11-30 Thread Chihurumnaya Ibiam
Hi Abhay, Yes you can use python in GCI as we have a lot of python repos, aside pygame you need to know the PyGObject Introspection modules as they're also used in sugar and sugar activities. Also look at this tutorial on

Re: [Sugar-devel] Participating in Google Code-In

2019-11-30 Thread Abhay Malik
Hey, Hope you all are doing fine, after getting all the suggestions I checked the sugar labs GitHub account. I got to see some repositories having python and they were using PyGame, so I decided to learn PyGame because I was very fascinated, in the process I built a a Snake Game from

Re: [Sugar-devel] Participating in Google Code-In

2019-11-18 Thread James Cameron
G'day Abhay, My post yesterday "How to get started as a Sugar Labs developer [v8]" has a list of ideas of where to code. See the trailing section. http://lists.sugarlabs.org/archive/sugar-devel/2019-November/057323.html You may want to understand the architecture of Sugar software. Please

Re: [Sugar-devel] Participating in Google Code-In

2019-11-18 Thread Abhay Malik
Thank you Vaibhav, all, First I went to this website(https://www.virtualbox.org/wiki/Downloads) And then downloaded the OS X host from that site. I faced an issue where it was not installing. Luckily after searching I got to a medium post:

Re: [Sugar-devel] Participating in Google Code-In

2019-11-17 Thread James Cameron
Your confusion is expected. ;-) https://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Getting_Started is out of date, as it does not show the Sugarizer or Music Blocks projects. We need people to keep the Wiki up to date, too. On Sat, Nov 16, 2019 at 04:39:00PM +0800, Abhay Malik wrote: > Thanks for the suggestion, >

Re: [Sugar-devel] Participating in Google Code-In

2019-11-16 Thread Amaan Iqbal
You can head over to https://github.com/sugarlabs/sugar/blob/master/docs/development-environment.md to see the steps you need to follow in order to set up Sugar Development Environment on your system. Also please visit https://github.com/sugarlabs/sugar-docs/blob/master/src/contributing.md to

Re: [Sugar-devel] Participating in Google Code-In

2019-11-16 Thread Vaibhav Aren
Go to the section "Sugar on a Virtual Machine" or head directly to Sugar-VirtualBox guide. On Sat, Nov 16, 2019 at 2:09 PM Abhay Malik wrote: > Thanks for the suggestion, > I checked the web version and played around with it, I checked the getting >

Re: [Sugar-devel] Participating in Google Code-In

2019-11-16 Thread Abhay Malik
Thanks for the suggestion, I checked the web version and played around with it, I checked the getting started document (https://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Getting_Started). I’m a bit confused, I have a Mac book air, I just wanted to know what steps should I do

Re: [Sugar-devel] Participating in Google Code-In

2019-11-06 Thread Walter Bender
Maybe try getting the Sugar environment running and poke around with the interface? On Wed, Nov 6, 2019 at 11:03 AM Abhay Malik wrote: > Thank you so much Mr. Walter, I’m really excited to complete tasks in GCI. > Any quick pointers for me, for example, where should I start from? > I have my

Re: [Sugar-devel] Participating in Google Code-In

2019-11-06 Thread Abhay Malik
Thank you so much Mr. Walter, I’m really excited to complete tasks in GCI. Any quick pointers for me, for example, where should I start from? I have my holidays and have a lot of time so I can learn. Thank you, Abhay > On Nov 5, 2019, at 01:44, Walter Bender wrote: > > You don't need to

Re: [Sugar-devel] Participating in Google Code-In

2019-11-04 Thread Walter Bender
You don't need to "join" Sugar Labs to participate in GCI. Just enter the contest when it becomes available to students and look for projects on the Sugar Labs page in GCI. We'll have lots of Python and JavaScript projects, as well as design, research, documentation, and out reach projects to