[gcompris-devel] GSoC project

[Cristina Precup]

Hello,

My name is Cristina Precup and I am interested in participating to the 
development of the GCompris educational software.
I am currently studying at the Babeș-Bolyai, Cluj-Napoca University, in 
Romania.
I should mention that I do not know Python programming language but I 
was glad to find out that your software activities are also developed 
using the C programming language, which is one of the programming 
languages that I have studied for several years.
Particularly, the following projects got my attention:
- the Vocabulary trainer
- the Text understanding
- the Dictionary with word definitions
- the Symmetrical drawing
- the Interactive geometry
However, I have some questions to ask regarding these projects:
- regarding the Vocabulary trainer:
1. to clarify my image upon this project, will the user have the option 
of setting the source and target languages for this separate activity?
- regarding the Dictionary with word definitions:
1. what are the prerequisites regarding the knowledge of XML files in 
order to succeed the development of this dictionary?

As I have understood so far, GCompris is based on the canvas widget 
GooCanvas for GTK+.
Can you please tell me what are the prerequisites that you think that 
are needed for a student to be able to develop some of these projects. I 
just want to make sure that I am doing the right thing and that nothing 
slips me.

Thank you.
I'm looking forward to hearing from you