Thanks for the heads up. I'll check them out. -walter
On Thu, Jun 28, 2012 at 2:08 PM, Stephen Jacobs <[email protected]> wrote: > JUst a quick note to point to the projects from the HFOSS course at RIT this > year... > > http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Quilt > > Quilt is a chat system designed for mesh networks. It was written in python > and uses zeromq as a way to pass data between nodes. Each node connects to > other nodes and allows a user to chat. The end goal is to have a resilient > chat network that auto discovers nodes on a mesh network. > > http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/PyCaveExplorer > This project is designed to teach children basic electronics by having them > explore randomly generated, grid-based caves. The goal is to create a lit > path from the starting tile to the goal tile by placing lights, batteries, > and connecting pieces of wire. The base educational goal is to teach how > simple circuits work, along with the differences between series and parallel > circuits, and the relationship between a power source and the number of > things connected to it. > > http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Point-and-Click-Arthur > > The player is Arthur's Royal Detective. The goal is retrieve all the knights > who are in the middle of their most famous quests for a banquet at Camelot. > The game is a "point and click" game in the same vein as Monkey Island and > King's Quest. The user reads dialog, hunts for an item on screen, and figures > out who to use the item on. This causes a reaction and new areas open, etc. > > > > > Stephen Jacobs > Associate Professor, Interactive Games and Media > Visiting Scholar,International Center for the History of Electronic Games > Chair, IGDA Learning, Games and Education SIG > Director, Lab for Technological Literacy > Rochester Institute of Technology > 152 Lomb Memorial Drive > Bldg 70 > Rochester, NY 14623 > [email protected] > 585-475-7803 office > > > -- Walter Bender Sugar Labs http://www.sugarlabs.org _______________________________________________ tos mailing list [email protected] http://lists.teachingopensource.org/mailman/listinfo/tos
