Friday Post

So, we've been making adequate progress over the past two days, but the more we talk about the design of the project, and whether or not we're meeting the ultimate goal of creating an educational piece of software, we seem to create more questions of whether or not we are reaching that goal. A big challenge is making this application both educational and fun. I have a feeling that this is going to be a continuing issue through the duration of the progress.

Anyways, Ben and Amit, as far as I know, have been working with testing out certain parts of GTK, trying to make code to do certain tasks, their learning will definitely come in handy later on in the project. Ryan has been playing with gstreamer to play background. He has successfully designed code to loop a certain music file. Personally, I've been working on the general layout. I made a few small changes, but the biggest one is that I've created functionality to allow the user to pick a continent, and then a country within that continent. As always, the project is up on the google code site and available for a read-only checkout through svn.

I'll also post a picture of our idea board. Hopefully we can get a slightly higher quality photo.