I don't want sound to be a jerk..., but a game like Asteroids is so right on the sweet spot of Etoys (take a look at the existing Lunar Lander, and think about extending it with better controls and rotation).
And, the biggest advantage of that route I think is all scripts can be written by kids and they can experiment different scripts and parameters. That would be more interesting on educational side. (Just for the record that I read these emais, albeit slowly^^;) And thank you Edward again for thinking about the contents aspect of the project. -- Yoshiki At Mon, 21 Jul 2008 19:57:20 -0500, Robert Myers wrote: > > Edward, > > > I would like to start a physics textbook project combining Measure, > > Etoys, SciPy, and all of the low-cost instruments we can come up with. > > We would have to take account of existing curricula, but not be bound > > by them, and we would have to produce a teachers' guide as well. Who > > would be interested in contributing? We need > > > > * Developers such as Yoshiki > > * Developer/teache/visionaries, preferably Alan > > * Engineers and physicists > > * Teachers > > * Students > > > > I want to include elementary calculus and vectors, and pitch this > > project at ten-year-olds. > > > > I'm approaching this through the back door. I've been working on a port > of an Asteroids game to the XO. I've been trying to pull out the > behavior to what I've been calling 'Physics game classes'. As a first > level test of the concept I implemented a demo that models 2D collisions > of 'cold' (slow) and 'hot' (fast) 'molecules'. The physics isn't > perfect, but the classes could provide a basis for more physics games > and demos. > > I'd be glad to forward what I've got so far. I'm planning on presenting > this as part of ILXO's upcoming Game Jam. > > Bob > _______________________________________________ > Sugar mailing list > Sugar@lists.laptop.org > http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/sugar _______________________________________________ Sugar mailing list Sugar@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/sugar