POSSCON is approaching fast, and I'm excited for the event. One thing I had not noticed last week is that Walter Bender (the founder of Sugar Labs) will be attending POSSCON! This is pretty exciting, considering that we are currently working on a new Activity for Sugar. I must've overlooked this because he is (unfortunately) not speaking on Thursday or Friday. He will be speaking on Wednesday. However, at some point our team (Flux Capacitors) will have to meet him and share our ideas (and hopefully progress) for the activity.
Our progress:
Since Tuesday, we've made quite a change in our Game Plan (after hearing what Dr. Bowring and the class had to say about our timeline). We were told to get started on a prototype for our activity ASAP, to help us make sure that it is feasible and so that we don't left behind. Of course, we are going to try to make our goals as simple as we can, and build on the activity as we go (for as much as time allows us to). So far, we've made great progress. Alex has been able to put together a Python application that uses PyGTK (for our interface -- and is widely supported within the Sugar OS). We've been able to set up drop-down boxes that contain lists of food groups. At first, we were having trouble getting the food groups to associate with a second drop down box (i.e. The user selects "Meats", then continues to select "Chicken" as the type of meat). However we've been able to get the secondary drop-down boxes to populate with data once the first box has been selected.
Some things for us to do soon:
1. Organize the data. We need to make sure that all of our data (Food groups, and sub-categories) is sorted, and easily accessible.
2. Create the algorithm. This is probably the most difficult task. We need to construct an algorithm that grabs data from the user's selected drop-down boxes (and the number of servings).
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