[gcompris-devel] Applying as a student for GSoC

[Bruno Coudoin]

Le dimanche 13 mars 2011 à 23:21 +0530, Karthik S a écrit :
> Hello,
> 
> This is Karthik from Chennai, India.
> I'm really interested in the* gcompris* project especially by the very
> motive of it, i.e. to educate the children from 2-10 years which I feel is
> most necessary.

Thanks a lot, your welcome.

> I would like to contribute to this project as a student, part of * GSoC
> program.*
> I have cloned the code and am reading through them now.
> Please help me on what I should go about with from this stage, I'm fluent
> with the languages used in this project and am studying the architecture,
> components used.
> 
> *
> I'm wondering whether to start working on a new application straight away or
> start with a Bugfix?
> 
> And if its a bugfix that I have to work upon what should I start with?

I am not going to give you direction on what you must do at this stage.
As a contributor, I prefer that you make up you mind and come up with a
proposal.

> My Idea:
> *
> *Though I liked a lot of Ideas in the wiki page, My idea is to have another
> *
> *Mathematics app (a very simple one) : *
> *-> Question : is a number from 1 to 1000 *
> *-> Given : is a set of numbers *
> *-> Answer :  is a subset from the Given set of numbers which needs to be
> selected to that the sum of the selected numbers is equal to the number
> given in the qyestion.*
> *This can be extended to other mathematical operations also, this would
> highly increase the efficiency in calculation in a child's memory.*

If I understand it well, we already have it:
http://gcompris.net/en-algebra_guesscount

Regards,

-- 
Bruno Coudoin
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