<div class="gmail_quote">Hi all,<br>I am a third year Engineering student in the field of Information Technology studying at National Institute of Technology, India.
I am very much willing to take part as a GSOC student in tux4kids. I would like to discuss some of the ideas regarding tuxmath and tuxtype.<br><br>I wish to add some more playing options in tuxmaths. I was thinking of implementing the square puzzles in which some numbers will be initially filled up by our program and user have to fill rest of the numbers so that the sums of the vertical elements, horizontal elements and diagonal elements will be same. I was also wondering if sudoku could be the part of tuxmath. We can vary the complexity of the sudoku by varying the size of the squares also(4x4, 9,9,16x16).<br>
<br>I have included a attachment 'snapshot.jpg' with this post which helps to understand the idea I will explain in the following lines. Blue boxes in the 'snapshot.jpg' will contain the either alphabets or numbers randomly. Tux has to move along a grey path and unlock each of the boxes in alpabetical order or numberical order. Unlocking the first alphabet may allow him to open the door of the next alphabet and so on. Otherwise he may not be able to proceed further and time consumed will be more. If we work with alpabets and numerals it may be feseable only for the very beginners. However, we may place words in blue boxes such that one has to proceed in alphabetical order. Also we may also place with small mathematical expressions such that one has to compare the results and proceed in ascending or descending order as specified.<br>
<br>And for implementing the hangman-type word guessing game(included in the project idea of tuxtype) we can use the penguin and the igloos .
For every wrong guess the igloo will melt. If the igloo will completely
melt the penguin will go away. Such case is already implemented in one
of the tuxmath games. We may only need to modify some of the aspects.<br><br>Can any of the above ideas may be a part of tux4kids with or without modifications. Please share your views.<br><br>Regards,<br><font color="#888888">Sushil<br>
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