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@@ -1,47 +1,38 @@ Typing Turtle +Notes + +How to handle capitals and punctuation? + +Are capitals and punctuation universal concepts? Certainly for all Roman languages. +Do other languages have capital-like and punctuation-like concepts with different rules? +Is there a generic way that punctuation could just be handled naturally? + It depends on how nicely we want them to work. For example knowing that you put quotes + around words, we can randomly enquote words. Knowing that semicolons, periods and + commas appear after words also allows us to randomly append them. + If we don't care, we can just suggest that a) punctuation be taught after the rest + of the alphabet, and b) native text be given which includes plenty of punctuation. +Is there a generic way that we can handle capitalization? + It would be nice to just be able to capitalize the beginning of any word. + OTOH, acronyms and stuff would be nice to include and those will only come from + wordlists. + +The answer to both: Right now, I think it's best to just encourage expansive word lists. +Note that this means that we have top *stop* stripping non-alpha characters from words +as we read them in! + +BTW, after all that work, when are we going to teach Enter? + First Release -- Write to Loser, Wes about developing artwork. -- Draw incorrect characters in red. -- Support backspace, backspace to previous lines. -- Scrolling TextView in lesson. -- Missing spaces at the end of some lines thanks to dodgy word wrap. -- Handle ends of line in a sane manner. -- Implement two step types: key learning and text copying. -- Split text into lines for long lessons. -- Try out an insensitive gtk.Entry instead of the gtk.Label. -- Better flow at the end of a level. Report the result on the Lesson screen: Need more work, Medal received, etc. -- Ability of lessons to list medals in other lessons as prerequisites. Disable unavailable lessons. -- Some sort of lesson sorting criteria. -- Split into file-per-screen. -- Scroll lessons list to the first non-medaled lesson at startup. Or just remember scroll position. + Status message on the main screen. "You unlocked a new lesson!" for example. Eventually have the turtle 'say' it. -- Implement a long text copying lesson and fix bugs in the scrolling and typing. + Graphical WPM and accuracy meters. -- WPM meter updated in 1sec timer in addition to on keypress. -- Working medals assignment: "You got a medal!" popup, display next to lesson. -- Nice looking keyboard. -- Highlighted keyboard keys when pressed. -- Support for displaying modifier keys in Keyboard. -- Change key shown when modified is held. -- Indicate next key to press on keyboard. -- Translate keyboard to native key layout. + Make medal WPM adjustable somehow? Perhaps a settable Goal WPM? + Highlight regions of keyboard, color by finger. -+ Artwork and animations. - + Speed meter picture? - + Accuracy meter picture? + Sound effects. + Welcome to the activity sound. + Speed up / slow down sounds when WPM crosses threshold: Slow, Medium, Fast. + Medal award sounds for each medal type: None, Bronze, Silver, Gold. Applause sound. + Incorrect key pressed tick sound. -+ Develop lessons. - - Continue to develop lessons for all keys on the keyboard. - - Develop 'focus' lessons e.g. fj. - - Mark some lessons as "locational" versus "textual" and translate from the English keyboard to native. Ex: Home row, Left hand, Numbers, etc. - - Give each lesson criteria for each medal type based on Accuracy, WPM. -- Automatically generate lessons similar to 'home row' based on a list of keys. Future Release + Goal support with progress reporting. WPM, Accuracy, Entire keyboard learned, etc. @@ -52,13 +43,6 @@ Future Release Balloon Game -- Create BalloonGameScreen class (use gtk.Layout?). -- Generate a list of random words, or read from lesson dictionary. -- Score display. -- Floating balloons with words on them. Random velocities, "floaty" look. -- Balloon letters disappear when typed. -- Balloon pops when word typed, score increased. -- Rate of balloons increases over time. + Game finished popup, displays score and medal text. + Fix flickering + Improve graphics. |