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This page displays the pertinent information regarding the development of Blocku.

Members

If you would like to help out with the development of Blocku then contact one of the active members. We would be happy with any help you can give.

Active

Members listed here are actively working on the project.

Mark DeMayo (3rd Year @ RIT) email: mdemayo24@gmail.com Contribution: Designer, Artist	Ihudiya Ogburu (5th Year @ RIT) email: ifogburu@gmail.com Contribution: Designer, Artist
Ariel Zamparini (3rd Year @ RIT) email: arielzamparini@gmail.com Contribution: Programmer	Fran Rogers (4th Year @ RIT) email: fran@dumetella.net Contribution: Programmer

Development Meetings

4pm-6pm Wednesday January 20, 2010

4pm Thursday January 28, 2010 (IRC)

4pm-6pm Thursday February 18, 2010

2pm-4pm Wednesday February 24,2010

Updates

01.14.2010 Updated the Wiki Page with New Links

01.16.2010 Updated the Wiki Page with new suggestions

01.21.2010 Updated the Wiki Page with new description, milestones, and logo

01.27.2010 Added in Fran, Added in summaries for student/teachers

02.02.2010 Developed Teacher Lesson Plan

02.09.2010 Reformatted Wiki

02.07.2010 Created the screenshot of the start menu and three game screens

02.07.2010 Added the screenshots to the wiki

02.09.2010 Added the Lesson Plan to the wiki

02.09.2010 Added the active members and their contacts to wiki

02.09.2010 Reformatted and Enhanced the Wiki

Milestones

• Decide which program to use as a foundation. (Tetravex, Super Cube, Jigsaw-Puzzle)

• Display a graphical interface.

• Make squares movable.

• Display squares with numbers.

• Make squares able to be rotated.

• Display grid where blocks can snap.

• Complete Software Requirements Specifications

• Complete Lesson Plan, and Instructional Documentation

Future Work

• Allow teachers to input any constraint not just Math ones.

• Change custom game screen to allow users to input matching pairs.

• Change custom game screen to allow users to input constraint.

• The ability to save games.

• The ability to load games.

• A leaderboard.

• Achievements/Trophies

• Save pair lists and constraints for future use.

Bugs/Fixes

Bugs	Problem	Fix
Rotation	Blocks Warp when Rotating getting bigger the more you do it	The Fix we derived for this will be that the blocks do not physically rotate only then numbers get passed around
Rotation Variables	Rotation variable are using place holds should be more dynamic

Public Git Repository

http://git.sugarlabs.org/projects/blocku

Public IRC Channel

Server

irc.freenode.net

Channel

#blocku

Contacts: Mark DeMayo | Ariel Zamparini | Ihudiya Ogburu | Fran Rogers | Lorin Petersen | Kai Ito | Matt Critelli