[Tux4kids-discuss] GSoC 2013 : introduction

[Brendan Luchen]

Jerome (and whomever else it may concern),

Good question. We've requested patches in past years, but this time our 
application was rather frantic, and most of the tiny community is busy 
with real life. AFAIK there's no requirement to submit a patch, but you 
are certainly welcome to do so for bonus points!

-Brendan

> Jerome Portal <mailto:jerome.portal.2 at gmail.com>
> April 11, 2013 11:28 AM
> 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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