[Tux4kids-discuss] GSoC 2013 : introduction

[Jerome Portal]

Hello everyone,

My name is Jerome Portal, a computer science student from France.

I looked at your ideas list and would like to work in GSoC with Tux4kids,
more precisely I'm interested in 3 projects :
- Migrate Tux Math and t4k_common to SDL 2.0
- Adapt Tux Typing to use the t4k_common library
- Create a LAN multiplayer mode for Tux Typing

I have programmed in C since several years, with the use of graphic
libraries like SDL/WxWidget (with various scholar projects such as a little
drawing program and an image viewer/hider). I played with Git for some
collaborative projects, and have a little experience of Cmake and Autotools
build systems.
I'm also used to network programming and sockets as I had to develop a DNS
resolver, a little HTTP client, and a packet sniffer ("libpcap inside").

I saw that some knowledge of C++ is required ; though I can program in C++,
I'm basically a C enthusiast.

So to get started I cloned the git source and built
tuxtype/tuxmath/t4k_common ; for now I'm browsing the code, and trying to
understand it to be able to do something for the several FIXME comments I
read.

Anyway, are there some tests for the students ? Many organizations require
the students to submit a patch or something else, but it seems there
nothing like that here.

Thank you for reading !

Regards,
Jerome
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