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==GCompris: Finishing started activities==

GCompris is a high-quality educational suite which aims at making learning easier for children aged 2 to 10.  GCompris currently has 137 activities on various topics such as science, maths, games with which it has successfully
created a great learning environment for children.  However,  there were few activities which was started previously but was not yet complete.  I strongly believe  in  what  GCompris  stands  for  and  in  this  project,  I  aimed at  taking GCompris one step forward by finishing three started activities:
Pilot a Submarine, Family and Digital Electronics

View my full proposal here: [http://rudranilbasu.me/docs/gsoc_2017_proposal.pdf   GSoC_2017_KDE_Proposal]

View my GSoC Project link here: [https://summerofcode.withgoogle.com/projects/#6332354560786432 GSoC_Project_link]

==Current Status==

For Google Summer of Code 2017, I planned to finish the following started activities:

        1.  '''Pilot a Submarine'''
             Status: Merged
        2.  '''Family'''
             Status:  Implementation done, currently in testing phase
        3.  '''Digital Electricity'''
             Status:  Proposed implementations are done, currently in testing phase

All the activities are complete, with one activity being merged with master (''Pilot a Submarine'') and the other two (''Family'' and ''Digital Electricity'') are in testing phase.

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==Pilot a Submarine==

===Introduction===

The ''Pilot a Submarine'' activity is aimed at teaching how a submarine works, focussing on the basic three elements of a submarine: the engine, rudders and the ballast tanks. It was originally started in the gsoc-submarine branch and this activity was present in the gtk+ version of GCompris. My task was to port the activity to the Qt version of GCompris.

===Goals===

Broadly, the items that were implemented for the task are listed as follows:

        1.  The components required for the levels in the submarine activity '''[DONE]'''
        2.  Implement tutorials for the initial levels '''[DONE]'''
        3.  Basic layout of the first 10 levels of the submarine activity '''[DONE]'''
        4.  Submarine components: Engine '''[DONE]''', Ballast Tanks '''[DONE]''', Rudders '''[DONE]'''
        5.  Collision detection '''[DONE]'''
        6.  Determine Win-Loss scenario '''[DONE]'''
        7.  Implement UI for controlling the submarine components '''[DONE]'''
        8.  FInal bug fixes and improvements '''[DONE for first version]'''

===Related Blog Posts===

* http://rudranilbasu.me/blog/kde/2017/05/29/Start-of-Coding-period/
* http://rudranilbasu.me/blog/kde/2017/06/09/GSoC-Week-2/
* http://rudranilbasu.me/blog/kde/2017/06/21/Pilot-a-Submarine-The-Submarine/
* http://rudranilbasu.me/blog/kde/2017/06/30/GSoC-month-1-analysis/

===Links===

The ''Pilot a Submarine'' activity was developed in the [https://cgit.kde.org/gcompris.git/log/?h=gsoc_rudra_submarine  gsoc_rudra_submarine] branch of [https://cgit.kde.org/gcompris.git/ Gcompris-qt]

Phabricator task: https://phabricator.kde.org/T1529

Commit Links: 

Merged with master:
[https://github.com/gcompris/GCompris-qt/commit/4e5b91e9942a872f294a726ebf9897c648235091 4e5b91e9942a872f294a726ebf9897c648235091]

View commits in the gsoc_rudra_submarine branch [https://github.com/gcompris/GCompris-qt/commits/gsoc_rudra_submarine?author=RudraNilBasu here]

===Screenshots===
[[File:Submarine_scr_1.png]]
''Submarine activity in action''
[[File:Submarine_pickups.png]]
''Pickups in the form of jewels in the Submarine activity''

==Family==

===Introduction===

The Family activity is aimed at helping children understand how they are related to their relatives. It was started in [https://cgit.kde.org/gcompris.git/log/?h=GSoC-family GsoC-Family] branch. My task was to improve the overall layout of the activity keeping same generation members at the same level in the tree representation, making the relation easy to understand, along with some cleaning up of the codebase. Additionally, I worked on adding another activity extending the "Family" activity, where given a relation, the user will have to click on the correct pair


===Goals===

Broadly, the items that were implemented are listed as follows:

        1.  Improve the current layout of the activity '''[DONE]'''
        2.  Implement the extended activity '''[DONE]'''
        3.  Test both of the above activities for possible improvements/bug fixes

===Related Blog Posts===

* http://rudranilbasu.me/blog/kde/2017/07/10/GSoC-phase2-week-1/
* http://rudranilbasu.me/blog/kde/2017/07/19/family-grid-wise-layout/
* http://rudranilbasu.me/blog/kde/2017/07/27/family-find-relatives/
* http://rudranilbasu.me/blog/kde/2017/07/28/GSoC-second-phase-analysis/

===Links===

The ''Family'' activity is being developed in the [https://cgit.kde.org/gcompris.git/log/?h=GSoC-family  GSoC-family] branch of [https://cgit.kde.org/gcompris.git/ Gcompris-qt]

Phabricator task: https://phabricator.kde.org/T6096

Commit links:

View my commit in the GSoC-family branch [https://github.com/gcompris/GCompris-qt/commits/GSoC-family?author=RudraNilBasu here]

===Mockups===

[[File:Family.png]]
''Current layout of Family activity''
[[File:Family_test_2.png]]
''Expected final layout''

===Screenshots===

Few "Before and After" screenshots for the ''Family'' activity

Left: Before

Right: After

 [[File:family_before.jpg]]           [[File:family_after.jpg]]

Working of ''Family_find_relatives'' activity

[[File:Result.gif]]


==Digital Electricity==

===Introduction===

The ''Digital Electricity'' activity is aimed at simulating digital circuits real-time. A ''Free Mode'' already exists, and my task was to implement a ''Tutorial Mode'' which is aimed at teaching the children about how each of the components work in a digital circuit and their behaviours.

===Goals===

Broadly, the items that were implemented are listed as follows:

        1.  Create two modes accessible via the config option in the bar  '''[DONE]'''
        2.  For tutorial mode, import level components from dataset  '''[DONE]'''
        3.  Implement pre-built circuit for tutorial mode  '''[DONE]'''
        4.  Complete tutorials levels  '''[DONE]'''
        5.  Increase Toolbar button size  '''[DONE]'''
        6.  Increase playArea size, zoom in and out '''[DONE]'''
        7.  Navigate through the playArea  '''[Testing / IN PROGRESS]'''

===Related Blog Posts===

* http://rudranilbasu.me/blog/kde/2017/08/07/Digital-electricity/
* http://rudranilbasu.me/blog/kde/2017/08/15/Digital-electricity-tutorial-mode/
* http://rudranilbasu.me/blog/kde/2017/08/23/Digital-electricity-tutorial-levels/

===Links===

The ''Digital Electricity'' activity is being developed in the [https://cgit.kde.org/gcompris.git/log/?h=gsoc_pulkit_digital_electricity  gsoc_pulkit_digital_electricity] branch of [https://cgit.kde.org/gcompris.git/ Gcompris-qt]

Phabricator task: https://phabricator.kde.org/T1524

Commit Links:

View my commits for the activity in the gsoc_pulkit_digital_electricity branch [https://github.com/gcompris/GCompris-qt/commits/gsoc_pulkit_digital_electricity?author=RudraNilBasu here]

===Screenshots===

Tutorial Modes of Digital Electricity activity:

 [[File:Level 21.png]]
''Tutorial on using BCD counter using a signal generator and displaying the count on the seven segment display''

 [[File:Level 10.png]]
''A Basic tutorial on the NOR gate''

==Contact==

'''Blog''': http://rudranilbasu.me/blog/

'''IRC nickname''': rudra

'''IRC channel''': #gcompris