[Tuxmath-devel] hello everyone

[David B. <db...@ta...>]

I have been hacking on tuxmath for the last two weeks or so for the benefit of 
my seven year old daughter.  I have been working from the sources in Debian 
Sid.  So far, I have made the following changes:
1.  limiting the game to two comets and preventing speed-up with new levels 
(probably not of general interest - done to keep my daughter from panicking).
2.  added support for negative answers for subtraction - this probably is of 
general interest.  Today I plan to implement a negative sign to the LED 
display, and also a command-line option regarding negative answers.
3. modifications to the graphics - our helmet penguin on the options screen 
has a pink bow to signify a girl penguin.  This is pretty trivial, but 
perhaps some parents would desire this customization.  At any rate, my 
daughter got a kick out of it.

I am currently working on a significant overhaul of the "Options" menu.  I 
want to implement finer-grained control of the question ranges, and also to 
give the child player a "mission" to complete.  As it stands now, the game 
always ends in defeat, albeit maybe with a lot of points.  I would like to be 
able to designate a set of math problems for kids to answer, and if they do 
so while keeping the cities alive, they win, with a "victory" screen and 
perhaps a printable certificate.

I have not previously contributed to open-source projects.  I have done a fair 
amount of C and C++ programming for my own amusement over the last ten years.  
I will read up on patch and other utilities.
-- 
David Bruce