CS 147 - Fall 2014 - Math Outside the Box - readme.txt

Requirements:

Google Chrome 39.0. or later
Internet Explorer 11.0 or later
Any other HTML5 + jQuery compatible modern browser

Operating Instructions:

- From a tablet:
Touch buttons to navigate like for a native app.
Touch hotspots to reveal interactivity.
Swipe to navigate through the Progress pages.

- From a laptop, desktop:
Click to navigate like for a web application
Mouse over hotspots to reveal interactivity.
Keyboard left-right to navigate through the Progress pages.

Limitations:

- Challenges
Only one challenge available.
Limited error checking, feedback on challenges presented.
Challenge launcher not implemented.
Challenge help missing.

- Profile
No secondary depth description about the profile available.
No access to friends.
No access to game history.

- Progress
Circular sliding not implemented.
Contrast-colored arrows not implemented.


Wizard of Oz Techniques

- Challenges
Hard coded challenge template, not drawing from a database.
No data is being logged by the device.

- Profile
Hard coded achievements and scores.
Hard coded "Brandon" - the child.
Only one profile accessible.

- Progress
Hard coded data in Javascript.


Development

- Harp - Integrated Development Platform
- Jade/HTML5 - Web language
- Javascript - Scripting language
- Less - Formatting language
- Github - Version control

Notes: Coffeescript compiler, Jade compiler in Harp behaved inconsistently. Stanford's AFS did not render pages in the same way. Probably one byzantine tag was missing in the compile command.

Project publicly available on Github (12/5/2014):

https://github.com/haichuanyu/math-outside-the


More about Math Outside the Box:

http://web.stanford.edu/class/cs147/projects/learning/math_outside_the_box/

Questions? Suggestions?

ashren@stanford.edu
brad0309@stanford.edu
haichuan@stanford.edu
dnyoung@stanford.edu