[Tux4kids-tuxtype-dev] Response from school staff regarding progress tracking

[Jordan Erickson]

I'd definitely think that splitting the progress control out into a
separate package and having the main codebase 'talk' to it would be the
most sane (so those who don't want/need progress control don't need to
install it).

It would obviously make the codebase much more modular as well once it's
up to speed to be able to talk to everything else. Not sure how much
re-coding in the main code we'd need to do stuff like this, I'm sure
it's no small feat to modulate it in this way (though there is minimal
progress tracking as it is, so it might be additions rather than
changes). If we go for it now we will have many other possibilities for
other ideas in the future as well. We'll be building a very solid
foundation for extensibility of TuxTyping, which would be really nice
for the ultimate goal of widespread acceptance and usage for learning
how to type with TuxType!

- Jordan




Uwe Geercken wrote:
> Jordan,
> 
> I can code the stuff and I can do the database work if that is ok for you./the group. but I would need somebody to do the design work for the html pages, icons, logos, etc.
> 
> then we would need to agree on how the tuxtype application stores the data the user produces and where. this could be a database, but then on the other hand, maybe that is not what you want (to keep dependencies low). you could store the results of the application in files and we create a process for importing this data into a database later for progress control. that is still a database of course but the app itself would not need a db. this way it would be a split of the app and the progress control. I think on the progress control side it has to be a database because of the size of the data.
> 
> rgds,
> 
> uwe
> 
> 
> 
>> -----Ursprüngliche Nachricht-----
>> Von: "Jordan Erickson" <jerickson at logicalnetworking.net>
>> Gesendet: 08.12.09 00:54:49
>> An: uwe <uwe.geercken at web.de>
>> CC: Tux Typing <tux4kids-tuxtype-dev at lists.alioth.debian.org>
>> Betreff: Re: [Tux4kids-tuxtype-dev] Response from school staff regarding progress tracking
> 
> 
>> Hi uwe,
>>
>> I'm still here!! Have been backed up with other things as well, the end
>> of the year is likely hard on everyone, with the holidays, vacations, etc..
>>
>> I am still 100% committed to the project and moving forward with
>> progress tracking and the other improvements. I'm going to add what we
>> discussed earlier to the wiki page I had set up before.
>>
>> I am not technically sure how we can start working on progress tracking
>> code as I am not a programmer myself (I do a bit of bash scripting,
>> though! =p). Anything I can facilitate outside of actual codework,
>> please ask. I'm willing to do whatever it takes to move this forward.
>>
>>
>> Cheers,
>> Jordan
>>
>>
>>
>> uwe wrote:
>>> hello everybody,
>>>
>>> I haven't heart a lot in the last two weeks on this issue nor did I get
>>> any feedback on it. is everyone busy? or do we have new ideas or
>>> something else?
>>>
>>> could somebody indicate how the progress tracking part will move
>>> forward?
>>>
>>> greetings,
>>>
>>> uwe