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'''What is the name of your project?'''
Name: Abacus JS, Spirolateral JS and Turtle Confusion JS
'''Describe your project in 10-20 sentences. What are you making? Who are you making it for, and why do they need it? What technologies (programming languages, etc.) will you be using?'''
'''Describe your project in 10-20 sentences. What are you making? Who are you making it for, and why do they need it? What technologies (programming languages, etc.) will you be using?'''
Abacus JS is a Javascript port for Sugar’s Abacus activity. Abacus activity is designed to let the kids explore different representations of numbers using different mechanical counting systems developed by the ancient Romans and Chinese. There are several different variants available for exploration. This will help kids improve their speed of mental math calculations using various techniques available for different abacus types.
Spirolateral JS is a Javascript port for Sugar’s Spirolateral activity. This activity is designed to help kids improve their analytical and logical thinking. This activity acts as a precursor for kids to learning programming techniques in future.
In this activity the kid need to setup the 5 values such that the turtle prints out the given specific challenge.
Turtle Confusion JS is a Javascript port for Sugar’s Turtle Confusion activity. This activity is more advanced version of Spirolateral wherein the kids has to program the turtle to print out a specific pattern on the screen. This activity provides more advanced tools and functions to operate the turtle logo. This activitity will help learners to get hold of basic programming concepts like ‘repeat’, while loops and help them lay a strong foundation for mathematical concepts of co-ordinate geometry.
Overall these three activities will help kids boost their ‘creativity’ which is a basic quality of geniuses!
Programming language used- Javascript
APIs to be used- Enchant.js and Processing.js. If there would be a need for other libraries, will discuss it with Walter sir.
I will be using the already available artwork from their previous Python version. My major focus will be on keep the basic concept intact with some generic UI improvements.
'''What is the timeline for development of your project? The Summer of Code work period is from May 19 - August 22; tell us what you will be working on each week. (As the summer goes on, you and your mentor will adjust your schedule, but it's good to have a plan at the beginning so you have an idea of where you're headed.) Note that you should probably plan to have something "working and 90% done" by the midterm evaluation (27 June); the last steps always take longer than you think, and we will consider cancelling projects which are not mostly working by then.'''
'''What is the timeline for development of your project? The Summer of Code work period is from May 19 - August 22; tell us what you will be working on each week. (As the summer goes on, you and your mentor will adjust your schedule, but it's good to have a plan at the beginning so you have an idea of where you're headed.) Note that you should probably plan to have something "working and 90% done" by the midterm evaluation (27 June); the last steps always take longer than you think, and we will consider cancelling projects which are not mostly working by then.'''
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Discussing the core functionalities and features of Abacus JS, Spirolateral JS and Turtle Confusion JS with my mentor <br>Walter Sir. Conclude the expected feature.
Design the workflow of these three activities.
Document a brief report on UI enhancements required if any.
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