I see..
I'm thinking of having questions grouped by subjects (p.e- maths,
science,English,spanish,..), what do you see better, to have only a
text file with all the questions/answers that the first word is the
key :
p.e-
maths -- how much is 2+2? -- 4
science -- which kind of animal is an eagle? -- a bird
.
.
.
With this option the problem I find is that I have to know how many
subjects there are, because the number of colours of the squares
depend on that (I mean, if the teacher wants to play with questions
only of maths and science, the board will have squares red and other
green, so when the player goes to a red square the game will show a
math question, but if it's a green square, the question showed will
be about science. If the teacher want to play also with questions
about English language, the board will show red, green and yellow
squares, and so on).
Another solution I find is to have a text file for each subject
(math.txt, science.txt,..) which I find more easy to work with since
I don't have to check the first word of each line.
I thought also that making a question editor would be a good
idea...maybe if doing that, parsing the file with XML won't be much
dificult since the teacher won't need to touch it directly...
And finally, a thing I'm also not sure of, is the way of representing
the question or/and answer during the game (maybe a pop-up?, maybe
integrated on the screen of the game?..)
Thanks so much to all ;)
Marta.
El 24/01/2008, a las 10:38, Chris Smith escribió:
I too would go with just putting all the questions into a text
editor. That way it's easy to edit and easy to spell-check the
questions and answers. You'd need a little bit of code to parse the
text files but Python is pretty good for that. Anything else would
probably be overload.
On 24/01/2008, Thiago Chaves <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
There's not so much difference in "editing the text file manually" or
editing it inside a python program. Both require a similar amount of
typing.
Plus Ethan's suggestion already takes care of the problem in a much
simpler way, and code is already provided.along wth his suggestion.
XML is overkill for that task.
-Thiago
On Jan 24, 2008 2:22 AM, James Paige <[EMAIL PROTECTED] > wrote:
> On Wed, Jan 23, 2008 at 07:15:05PM -0500, Ethan Glasser-Camp wrote:
> > marta sanz wrote:
> > >This game is aimed to be used by my sister's school teacher in
her class
> > >of 10 years old kids. I said this because, despite the fact
that I will
> > >give this game with some questions so they can play from the
moment I
> > >give it to them, I would like the teacher to make her own
question bank
> > >once the kids have learned the questions I give at the
beginning, but
> > >have no idea of how can i do a simple bank and how can I
access it from
> > >the pygame code.
> >
> > Hi,
> >
> > Someone else suggested XML, but personally that seems too
heavyweight
> > for a teacher (with possibly no computing experience) to edit.
Here is
> > what I would do:
>
> There is absolutely no reason the teacher has to edit the file
maually.
>
> Make an "Edit Questions" mode, or a separate question_editor.py
program
> that operates on the same data files. Provide one box where the
teacher
> types the question, and a second box where the teacher types the
answer.
> Then save the Q/A data in whatever format you decide on (XML, or
text,
> or other)
>
>
> ---
> James Paige
>
