Improve and Maintain 12 Sugar Activities

Google Summer of Code'23

Name - Riya Jain

Email - [email protected]

GitHub username - jriyyya

Mentors - chimosky , sourabhaa

My work in project

During the summer, I spent my time around contributing to Sugar. My work revolved around refactoring, improving, adding new features, enhancing the UI in different activities. Project also involved some reviewing of PRs, fixing flake8 warnings and solving issues which were blocking new releases, and making new releases. I learnt alot during this process about python, pygame, GTK +3, sugargame, sugar and it's working, etc.

Work Track

Activity Name	Comments	Link to work	Status
make-them-fall-activity	Created Generic Game, Generator, fallItem, Guy classes Refactored code to employ D.R.Y principles and reduce CPU consumption Added feature - Difficulty Control Button Restructured code so that wherever hardcoded values were used, were replaced by functions Fixed Screen overlaping on canvas which was not visible Update Sugargame to support key presses Fix Flake8 Warnings	Link to work Link to work Link to work Link to Work Link to work	Merged Merged Merged Merged Merged
block-party-activity	Add feature: Show Ghost piece to plan landing of piece Utilized Gdk.rgba to get ghost piece color Add bonus score for line break	Link to work Link to work Link to release	Merged Merged
classify-cats	Added a new game-mode - Choose the cat from the options which has a odd/even count. In this gamemode the player sees 4 different kind of cats on screen and has 4 options to choose from. Only one cat will have a unique count of even or odd and player has to find that Increase max_puzzle_count and Time between game Bug Fix in Score	Link to Work Link to Work Link to work	Merged Merged Under Review
ball-and-brick-activity	Refactored code and added new classes ball, brick, bat for their functionality Created Ball class which handles movement, drawing and collisions. Made a new class called Bat which encapsulates the scroller functionality.	Link to work	Under Review
hittheballs-activity	Added gameloop to the game - The game ended after choosing the correct option but now points are added to score when correct answer is chosen and game continues. Added HighScore Feature	Link to Work Link to work Link to Release	Merged Merged
Sonic-jump-activity	Enhanced the UI of the welcome screen by adding a animated jumping sonic making it visually appealing Added a help screen, whose button is on welcome screen which show to play the game	Link to work	Merged
Stick-hero-activity	Fixed arrow keys not working on some pygame version	Link to work Link to release	Merged Merged
Falabracman-activity	Updated Readme to resolve issue #6 Updated Sugargame to fix arrow keys not working on some pygame version.	Link to work Link to work Link to Release	Merged Merged
Countries-activity	Replaced alphabets to be drawn dynamically instead of using an image Fixed Screen overlaping with toolbar in some version of pygame Updated sugargame to support key presses which was not detected in some versions of pygame	Link to work	Under Review
Across-and-down-activity	Replaced alphabets to be drawn dynamically instead of using an image Fixed Screen overlaping with toolbar in some version of pygame Updated sugargame to support key presses which was not detected in some versions of pygame	Link to work	Under Review
Flipsticks	Updated ReadMe to resolve Issue #11	Link to work	Under Review
Math-hurdler	Enhanced the UI of the gameplay Fixed Horse and hurdler sprite not getting on the correct position Added a generic class which acts as the button for the options to selct from Added Support of keyboard for option buttons Updated Sugargame to support key presses	Link to Work	Under Review

Prior to GSoC Contribution

Activity Name	Comments	Link to work	Status
make-them-fall-activity	Refactored code added new Button class reduced re-renders	Link to work	Merged
classify-cats	Fixed highscore loading Added showing current score after every game A bonus score for the reaction time fixed the win check for placing cats	Link to work	Merged
block-party-activity	Feature: Show highscore	Link to work Link to work	Merged
tictactoe	Feature: Added text to show current turn	Link to work	Merged
sugar-toolkit-gtk3	Fixed issue: Deprecated module optparse is used	Link to work	Merged
stick-hero-activity	Bug Fix: Initially Fruit score showed highscore Bug Fix: Bug in perfect score	Link to work Link to work Link to work	Merged
activity-abacus	Bug Fix: Top left bead overflows on reset	Link to work	Merged
flipsticks	Fix Flake8 Warnings Changed Division operator to Floor division	Link to work Link to work	Merged
falabracman-activity	Fixed Flake8 warnings	Link to work Link to work Link to work	Merged
Distance-activity	Fixed Flake8 warnings	Link to work	Merged
Cookie-search-activity	Fixed Flake8 warnings	Link to work Link to work	Merged

Personal Note

With GSoC'23 coming to an end, I'd like to thank my mentors Ibiam Chihurumnaya and Sourabha G for guiding me all along. I really enjoyed working on these activities and I will be continuing my contribution to Sugar Labs. 🚀