> I was wondering about how any activity, not just math activities, are > using databases? Again, a newbie question.
Most activities (the way we've been using the word here so far as I've seen it, anyway) don't - they're standalone, tiny, non-web-based games (though I'm not sure the latter is/should actually be a restriction). >> And finally, are you writing to flat files or is there some sort of >> scaled down database in use or to be used? I think this is a per-activity decision, but I've had success in the past with pickling (saving python objects in a flat text file) for small basic storage. Others may vary - I'm definitely not the most experienced Python game hacker here. >> Hi, I'm just curious as to what is motivating people like Greg D. >> to tackle this. Do you guys have kids? Still too young to have my own kids, but it wasn't too long ago that I was a kid myself. As a severely hearing-impaired child, the "listen to teachers" learning methodology didn't work so well; I taught myself most things from books (and later computers) and was constantly frustrated by the lack of resources and people to learn with that my little world contained - and also realized I was lucky to be /able/ to teach myself at all. I want my cousins (I'm the oldest of 14, the youngest is 5 now, and we're very close) to have better options than I did. There are many more reasons, but that's one of mine. --Mel _______________________________________________ FourthGradeMath mailing list [email protected] http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/fourthgrademath
