GvSIG-Educational-Games GSoC 2017

Project
Title: Educational games add-on for gvSIG Batoví/Educa.

Student: Carlos I. Colombana

Mentors: Nadia Chaer, Francisco Puga.

Details
Link to GSoC 2017 application.

Link to GitHub repository.

The main idea behind this project is to develop an add-on which allows to create/play educational games. Also generate documentation specially oriented to users without any programming knowledge.

The code will be mainly developed in Jython, an implementation of the Python programming language written in Java, through the scripting module of the gvSIG desktop 2.x branch.

The developed tools will be used in geography and maps learning.

Reports
Week 1 (May, 30 - June, 4):

What did you get done this week?

I spent the week refactoring base modules and GUIs, and redifining functionalities with my mentors.

What do you plan on doing next week?

Finish refactoring base modules and GUIs.

Are you blocked on anything?

Yes, but i'll solve it with my mentors this week.

Week 2 (June, 5 - June, 11):

What did you get done this week?

Finished refactoring base modules and GUIs.

What do you plan on doing next week?

Develop game management module and GUI.

Are you blocked on anything?

No.

Week 3 (June, 12 - June, 18):

What did you get done this week?

Developed game management module and GUI, and improved base modules and GUIs.

What do you plan on doing next week?

Develop view management functionalities and report management module. If possible, develop login module.

Are you blocked on anything?

No.

Week 4 (June, 19 - June, 25):

What did you get done this week?

Developed view management functionalities.

What do you plan on doing next week?

Develop report management module. If possible, develop login module.

Are you blocked on anything?

No.

Week 5 (June, 26 - July, 2):

What did you get done this week?

Studied possible ways of filling ODT templates. Developed (partially) report management module.

What do you plan on doing next week?

Finish report management module. If possible, develop login module.

Are you blocked on anything?

Yes, at the final step. It's throwing me an error that i can't solve. I'll study it with my mentors.

Week 6 (July, 3 - July, 9):

What did you get done this week?

Improved, fixed some issues and finished ODT templates filling method. Developed ODT documents merging method. Studied many ways of exporting an ODT document to PDF.

What do you plan on doing next week?

Finish report management module. If possible, develop login module.

Are you blocked on anything?

No.

Week 7 (July, 10 - July, 16):

What did you get done this week?

Studied many ways of exporting ODT documenst to PDF. Until now i used an ODT template, JOpenDocument and LibreOffice/ Apache OpenOffice. It works, but i need a standalone library instead.

What do you plan on doing next week?

Finish report management module. If possible, develop login module.

Are you blocked on anything?

No.

Week 8 (July, 17 - July, 23):

What did you get done this week?

Studied Opensagres XDocReport and Apache PDFBox. Made many tests with both.

What do you plan on doing next week?

Finish report management module. If possible, develop login module.

Are you blocked on anything?

I'm having trouble with embedded images.

Week 9 (July, 24 - July, 30):

What did you get done this week?

Refactored, improved and finished report management module. Integrated it with game management module. Replaced LibreOffice/Apache OpenOffice with Opensagres XDocReport and Apache PDFBox. Now the addon has no dependencies.

What do you plan on doing next week?

Develop login module. Start developing the add-on’s functionalities that would allow to create educational games.

Are you blocked on anything?

No.

Student's Biography
Country: Uruguay

School and Degree: Faculty of Engineering (UdelaR, Uruguay), Cartographic Technician / Student of Computer Engineer.

I learned about GIS, Geodatabases, GNSS, Remote Sensing, Photogrammetry, etc in many courses offered by Faculty of Engineering (UdelaR, Uruguay).

Computing experience
On a day-to-day basis i use Ubuntu and Windows 7 as operative systems.

I learned about fundamentals of programming and scripting in Matlab / Octave, in a course offered by Faculty of Engineering (UdelaR, Uruguay).

I’m learning about programming in C/C++, in a course offered by Faculty of Engineering (UdelaR, Uruguay).

GIS experience as a user
I’ve been working since February of 2014 at the Geomatics Department of the National Direction of Topography (MTOP, Uruguay) using gvSIG, QGIS and Kosmo daily.

GIS programming
I learned about scripting in Jython on the 2014 edition of “Introduction to Scripting in gvSIG 2” MOOC offered by the gvSIG Association, through the gvSIG Training platform.

After the MOOC ended i’ve written scripts in the gvSIG 2.x branch to facilitate and improve some tasks at work.