Re: Collaborative Learning project

How about a Magic: The Gathering app (or some other such game)? -- Full disclosure: I don't play, but the kids seem to like it. :) -- You could write a server and clients. It seems like the kind of thing that could:

Be up and running fairly quickly
Be open-ended enough for continued tweaking
Present a sufficiently varied set of tasks to be broken up into groups. (Adding new features to the server, porting the client to various OSes, and/or setting up a web interface both for players and for administrators, setting up a database for connections, tournaments, etc.)

Just a thought, which may turn out to be half-baked.

BCE
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Re: Re: Collaborative Learning project by moxliukas (Curate) on Sep 18, 2002 at 08:49 UTC
I think I also like this idea of developing an online game (I have never heard of this particular game though) because it has very broad perspective on things. Writing a full game would probably involve: using databases CGI for web interface (with an interface to the database) with cookies and all side issues You can even write a custom template system (remember that we are not striving for efficiency, the objective is to learn) Socket programming - client and server There could be graphics programing involved (let's say displaying user stats in a graph) As the project might get big, you also get experience in working as a team as a bonus ;)	[reply]
Re: Re: Collaborative Learning project by sch (Pilgrim) on Sep 18, 2002 at 08:37 UTC
I quite like the idea of that (or something similar - I've heard of Magic, but don't know anything about it). As an alternative, I've seen there are often questions about shopping carts - I'd be quite interested in this, in fact I've done a simple version for some stuff I'm involved in - but I think it would offer some useful stuff: CGI cookies - good idea or not, alternatives db back system - i.e. mysql or something similar user interface issues Of course, again this is only a suggestion - and I'd be interested in some alternatives.	[reply]