Hello Frisco, one option for you is to become an expert in something MacRuby. One area for example that could give you some good skills and could be good for the MacRuby community (if you release the results) is the CoreAnimation area, an area I was hoping I would have time for but will not. So: 1. You could take a look at the example I translated on johnmacshea.org - in the Hillegas examples - Polynomials. 2. Then you could translate Bill Dudney's CoreAnimation examples with these screencasts : http://www.pragprog.com/screencasts/v-bdcora/creating-a-compelling-user-inte... (He also has a book - available as a pdf at the pragprogs - if you are really keen do that as well). You will probably need to buy the screencasts - and I actually have not checked with the PragProgs whether they are happy to have MacRuby versions of their Objective C code floating around. I have done the macruby translations for the first two or three screencasts. 3. Then you could translate this: http://cocoawithlove.com/2009/03/asteroids-style-game-in-coreanimation.html I am actually not sure what the performance would be in MacRuby - in the 4th instalment in that series Matt suggests that CoreAnimation (in ObjectiveC) can sometimes have performance issues with many layers. 4. Then for the final exam of your short course ;-) you could do what Jordan Hubbard suggested and translate this http://developer.apple.com/samplecode/GeekGameBoard/index.html.<http://developer.apple.com/samplecode/GeekGameBoard/index.html> If you are interested in following this path let me know and I will send you what I have done in the Bill Dudney screencasts. Even if we aren't allowed to release the macruby versions into the wild - you could learn from the process and help you on the next steps. Cheers, J On Wed, Mar 18, 2009 at 4:58 AM, Frisco Del Rosario <frisco@laszlomail.com>wrote:
I am an old dog learning new tricks by reading. I remember that when I was a young dog, I learned better by doing.
So I would like to help someone do something. I have experience writing unit tests and documentation, but would like to do anything. _______________________________________________ MacRuby-devel mailing list MacRuby-devel@lists.macosforge.org http://lists.macosforge.org/mailman/listinfo.cgi/macruby-devel