[Tux4kids-discuss] [Tuxmath-devel] GSOC 2014

[Thomas Price]

Sounds like you might enjoy Newton's playground: 
http://educade.org/teaching_tools/newtons-playground
Does more or less what you said, minus the numbers.

-Thomas

On 2/6/2014 10:00 PM, David Bruce wrote:
> That sounds intriguing - I'm not aware of anything like that.
>
> On a slightly different note, I wonder if there would be a role for a 
> Newtonian mechanics game that would be largely an Angry Birds clone, 
> with more explicit display and manipulation of the equations and 
> variables involved (acceleration, velocities, angles, mass, force, 
> etc.) to make it more educational (my daughter is in high school now ;)
>
> Regards to Aaditya, Deepak, Pere, and everyone carrying on the effort! 
>  I really would love to be a more active participant but "real life" 
> doesn't allow me the time to do so for the immediate future.
>
> David
>
>
> On Fri, Jan 31, 2014 at 5:44 AM, Harsh Vardhan Sharma 
> <bonnyharsh1993 at gmail.com <mailto:bonnyharsh1993 at gmail.com>> wrote:
>
>     Hello Sir,
>     I have an idea for a physics game that can be developed using
>     javascript and html.
>     The game is mainly about refraction and knowing how the light ray
>     would deviate from its path i.e., depending on the relative
>     refractive index of the two mediums.
>     So, with every increasing level the number of combinations one has
>     to try would increase to make light reach its destination.
>     Attached is a sketch of how the game could look like.
>     Kindly, suggest on how feasible this idea would be.
>
>     Regards,
>     Harsh Vardhan Sharma
>
>
>
>     On Fri, Jan 31, 2014 at 10:58 AM, Bill Kendrick <nbs at sonic.net
>     <mailto:nbs at sonic.net>> wrote:
>
>
>         I'd love to see Lin Dai's iOS code integrated into the main
>         branch of
>         Tux Paint.  It lives here: https://github.com/dailin/tuxpaint
>
>         I'm also using git at work nowadays, and would love to see us
>         switch
>         from CVS to git. :)
>
>
>         -bill!
>
>         On Fri, Jan 31, 2014 at 12:45:47AM +0100, Pere Pujal i
>         Carabantes wrote:
>         > Hi all
>         >
>         > This year GSOC starts early, org applications start next
>         week and last
>         > until february 14, see the timeline:
>         >
>         https://google-melange.appspot.com/gsoc/events/google/gsoc2014
>         so if we
>         > want to participate we should start right now.
>         >
>         > Some ideas for the list:
>         >
>         >  More mobile apps (BTW we need to add apps from previous
>         GSOCs to the
>         > tux4kids.org <http://tux4kids.org> web page)
>         >  New Chemistry, Biology, Physics, etc apps
>         > Tuxmath, Tuxtype, Tuxhistory, Tuxpaint?
>         >
>         > As for mentoring I am available, anybody else?
>         >
>         > Cheers
>         > Pere
>         >
>         >
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>         --
>         -bill!
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