Hello Frisco,<div><br><div>one option for you is to become an expert in something MacRuby.</div><div><br></div><div>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.</div>
<div><br></div><div>So:</div><div>1. You could take a look at the example I translated on <a href="http://johnmacshea.org">johnmacshea.org</a> - in the Hillegas examples - Polynomials.</div><div><br></div><div>2. Then you could translate Bill Dudney&#39;s CoreAnimation examples with these screencasts : <a href="http://www.pragprog.com/screencasts/v-bdcora/creating-a-compelling-user-interface-with-core-animation">http://www.pragprog.com/screencasts/v-bdcora/creating-a-compelling-user-interface-with-core-animation</a></div>
<div>(He also has a book - available as a pdf at the pragprogs - if you are really keen do that as well).</div><div><br></div><div>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. </div>
<div><br></div><div>I have done the macruby translations for the first two or three screencasts.</div><div><br></div><div>3. Then you could translate this: <a href="http://cocoawithlove.com/2009/03/asteroids-style-game-in-coreanimation.html">http://cocoawithlove.com/2009/03/asteroids-style-game-in-coreanimation.html</a></div>
<div>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.</div><div>
<br></div><div>4. Then for the final exam of your short course ;-) you could do what Jordan Hubbard suggested and translate this <span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: collapse; "><a href="http://developer.apple.com/samplecode/GeekGameBoard/index.html" target="_blank" style="color: rgb(42, 93, 176); ">http://developer.apple.com/samplecode/GeekGameBoard/index.html.</a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; "></span></span></div>
<div><br></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: collapse;"><br></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: collapse;">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&#39;t allowed to release the macruby versions into the wild - you could learn from the process and help you on the next steps.</span></div>
<div><br></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: collapse; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; ">Cheers,</span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: collapse; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; ">J </span></span></div>
<div><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, Mar 18, 2009 at 4:58 AM, Frisco Del Rosario <span dir="ltr">&lt;<a href="mailto:frisco@laszlomail.com" target="_blank">frisco@laszlomail.com</a>&gt;</span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">I am an old dog learning new tricks by reading. I remember that when I was a young dog, I learned better by doing.<br>


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So I would like to help someone do something. I have experience writing unit tests and documentation, but would like to do anything.<br>
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