[Cuis-dev] Collecting a "Help Wanted" document - Re: Looking to help Cuis development

[Hilaire Fernandes]

Hi folks,

I am very very interested by the request of Ruben. How to to get student 
involved in Cuis and related projects.

Nevertheless, Ruben is a bit clueless if it is only given as assignment 
"gain some credits for whatever improvement you bring to the community".

First Juan suggestion, I copy at  the Cuis-Smalltalk-Dev wiki, we don't 
want to forget them.

https://github.com/Cuis-Smalltalk/Cuis-Smalltalk-Dev/wiki/Helping-Cuis

If we want to be more elaborate, the Cuis community should discuss with 
the teachers to construct a more precise list of "Cuis assignments" and 
the amount of credits that such assignments will give to the students. 
In the short term, this will give more visibility to the students, make 
the process more sustainable and serious. In mid and long term, it could 
disseminate to several universities.

Hilaire


Le 27/03/2024 à 14:32, Juan Vuletich via Cuis-dev a écrit :
> Hi Rubén, Folks,
>
> (below)
>
> On 3/26/2024 7:31 PM, Ruben Bohorquez via Cuis-dev wrote:
>> Hello! I'm currently enrolled in a class that uses mainly Cuis, and 
>> they give us extra credits if we contribute to the development of 
>> CuisUniversity. Since I do not currently have any specific idea as to 
>> what to contribute, I figured I might as well ask the wider community 
>> whether they need help with a particular project.
>>
>> I already have experience with Smalltalk (had an OOP class with the 
>> same teacher before which also used Cuis), and I also contributed to 
>> Cuis before. So, if anyone needs help with a feature, tests, or 
>> anything really, do let me know!
>
> This is a question that gets asked from time to time. Maybe old timers 
> could also want some interesting/useful problem to work on.
>
> I suggest that we collect a list of projects or areas where 
> improvements would be good. We could host that in a .md document in 
> the main repo, or perhaps a wiki page at GitHub. In any case, what 
> follows is the first sketch I could come up with. Please answer with 
> your own ideas, comments and corrections.
>
> Rubén, feel fre to pick any!
>
>
> Ideas for helping Cuis
> =================
>
> Beginner level
> --------------------
> - Read the Cuis book. Understand every detail. Do every exercise. 
> Suggest corrections and improvements.
> - Use Cuis. Play with it. Try every dev tool. Report on your 
> experience. Write documentation.
> - Do your own version of the Spacewar! project. Handle it like a real 
> project, evolving your own version of the code and publishing it at 
> GitHub or somewhere. Report on your experience. Document your process. 
> Suggest enhancements to tools.
> - Read the the stuff at 
> https://github.com/Cuis-Smalltalk/Cuis-Smalltalk-Dev/tree/master/Documentation 
> . Suggest corrections and improvements.
> - Review www.cuis.st. Check consistency with 
> https://github.com/Cuis-Smalltalk/Cuis-Smalltalk-Dev and 
> https://github.com/Cuis-Smalltalk/Cuis6-2
>
> Intermediate level
> -------------------------
> - Review / test / use Cuis packages related to Networking, Web 
> clients, Web servers. Build toy examples using them. Report on the 
> experience. Write documentation.
> - Review / test / use Cuis packages you find interesting. Build toy 
> examples using them. Report on the experience. Write documentation.
> - Understand Morphic, and the Cuis specific aspects. Build a game. 
> Something like Pac-Man for instance. Write documentation.
> - Review the pluggable GUI widgets in Cuis. Compare with other 
> Smalltalk dialects. Compare with non-Smalltalk widget libraries and 
> kits. What is missing?
>
> Advanced level
> ----------------------
> - Compare the various possible approaches to building web servers and 
> web clients. Write documentation.
> - Take the SVG package and turn it into and end user Vector Graphics 
> designer application. Like a baby Inkscape.
> - Review and update Sound and MIDI. Build a small music instrument.
> - Build something like the old PhotoSqueak based on Cuis 
> ImageProcessing package.
> - Implement new GUI widgets for Cuis. A dropdown list, for instance. 
> Or a multi column l
> - Find a way to assess and describe which community packages work with 
> each Cuis release (6.2, 6.3)
> - Review and clean or update as needed the packages included in the 
> main repo
> - Check and correct or eliminate CorePackages.pck.st and 
> AllPackages.pck.st
> - Check and correct AdditionalPackagesForCuis.md. Assess quality and 
> upToDate-ness.ist.
>
> Advanced+ level
> -----------------------
> - Design and build a framework for extensible and user configurable 
> tool menus and keyboard shortcuts
> - Ephemerons (VM support is there)
> - Non-blocking FFI (VM suppoort is there)
> - Unicode collation
>
> Thanks!
>
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