<html><head><style type="text/css"><!-- DIV {margin:0px;} --></style></head><body><div style="font-family:verdana,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:12pt"><div>This is indeed a great idea. As a high school math teacher I think applications like these are simply fantastic. I may not be able to help with the coding, but I will certainly help with the testing.<br><br>Ben<br><br></div><div style="font-family: verdana,helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"><br><div style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;"><font size="2" face="Tahoma"><hr size="1"><b><span style="font-weight: bold;">From:</span></b> Alex Berry <berry3@indiana.edu><br><b><span style="font-weight: bold;">To:</span></b> kde-edu@kde.org; T. J. Brumfield <enderandrew@gmail.com><br><b><span style="font-weight: bold;">Sent:</span></b> Sunday, April 5, 2009 7:23:29 AM<br><b><span style="font-weight: bold;">Subject:</span></b> Re: [kde-edu]: Number
Munchers<br></font><br>I love this idea. I actually wrote a clone of Number Munchers <br>(creatively called Digit Crunchers) for a Java design patterns class <br>last semester and would be more than happy to port it to Qt/KDE if the <br>conditions for what a KDE version of number munchers would entail were <br>made a bit more explicit. If that explicitness is merely write it and <br>we'll go from there that's fine too.<br><br><br><br>ps I'm not really sure how rights play into clones and how KDE handles <br>such matters.<br><br>Quoting "T. J. Brumfield" <<a ymailto="mailto:enderandrew@gmail.com" href="mailto:enderandrew@gmail.com">enderandrew@gmail.com</a>>:<br><br>> First off, I want to say thank you for all the developers who have<br>> worked on the kde-edu project. There are some really great apps in<br>> there.<br>><br>> I have a young daughter, and she loves playing computer games with me.<br>> Honestly,
I'd love to see some more FOSS educational apps. One of<br>> the biggest issues I see in education apps, is that some of the apps<br>> are so specific, that they somewhat only pertain to students of a<br>> specific subject, or children at a very specific age range. I would<br>> like to see a remake/clone of Number Munchers.<br>> <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Number_Munchers" target="_blank">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Number_Munchers</a><br>><br>> It was developed by MECC, which is no longer in business, and they<br>> haven't taken action against clones of Oregon Trail, their most<br>> popular app.<br>><br>> Number Munchers has many nice things going for it as a concept.<br>> * It is simple to learn and play.<br>> * It should be simple to code. I say that as a non-programmer, but<br>> someone made a DHTML version in under 5k of code here:<br>> <a
href="http://www.numbermunchers.org/" target="_blank">http://www.numbermunchers.org/</a><br>> * The app doesn't need much from an art perspective, unless you wanted<br>> to add nice animations or cut scenes.<br>> * The game mechanic appeals to children of varying age ranges.<br>> * You can use different types of math problems to appeal to children<br>> of varying ages.<br>><br>> I was thinking a KDE version could use Konqi to munch the numbers to<br>> get away from completely copying the original app. Perhaps gameplay<br>> could even be expanded by allowing Konqui to breathe fire to deal with<br>> the Troggles. Correctly answer X number of math problems, or munching<br>> X number of correct solutions awards Konqui with one flame.<br>><br>> -- T. J. Brumfield<br>> "I'm questioning my education<br>> Rewind and what does it show?<br>> Could be, the truth it becomes you<br>> I'm a seed,
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