CSC323 2010S, Class 27: Project Time

Overview:
* Comments from Sam ...
* Group reports.
* Time to work.

Admin:
* We'll begin Thursday's class with a "Dog and Pony" show.  
  * Your goal is to show off your project.  
* Buffalo Buffalo Buffalo Buffalo Buffalo
  * Ruminant mammals from the state of New York intimidate
  * Ruminant mammals from the state of New York 

Comments from Sam ...
* Potential serious flaw in design: 
  What if we just want to count live/dead neighbors?
  Problem comparing Default Dead vs. Dead Conway
  * Hybridizing multiple game models can be a pain
* If you have spare time and some possible win situations, 
  you could play with genetic programming.
* How are we handling conflict resolution?

Group Reports Questions:
* What have you done since Thursday?
* What do you have left to do?
* What are your biggest hurdles?
* What advice do you need?
* With whom do you need to work today?
* Comments from the peanut gallery

GUI + Networks
* What have you done since Thursday?
  * Cleaned up the networking code.
  * Integrated server with GUI.
  * Invented new thing called WorldSpec that encapsulates all
    of the key information.
    * Amazingly similar to what's in a world.
* What do you have left to do?
  * Network setup.
  * Integrate client with GUI.
  * Connect to the server and make sure that it works.
* What are your biggest hurdles?
  * Network setup - It's complicated.  Lots of information to
    pass around.  Problem of hooking into GUI.
* What advice do you need?
  * Help from former GUI people on how to use TKinter
* With whom do you need to work today?
  * Maybe a GUI person.
* Comments from the peanut gallery
  * What should the GUI do about the repetitious UI elements for
    "I want a network game!"

Creature GUI 
* What have you done since Thursday?
  * Build basic version.
  * Added an ID to species
* What do you have left to do?
  * Finish fixing the problem of what happens when someone changes
    a species name.
  * Add the rule editor.
* What are your biggest hurdles?
  * Integrate the way to load species or rules from text
  * Live/Dead field in species and integrating with predicates
* What advice do you need?
  * Should there be a default set of species when the game loads?
  * What do we want to do about "Dead"
* With whom do you need to work today?
* Comments from the peanut gallery
  * Can we have some default rule sets?

Making it Fun + Fishy
* What have you done since Thursday?
  * Added the front-end for save
  * Started back-end for saving/loading; soon to pickle it
  * Zoom, scroll, click-and-drag all seem to work 
* What do you have left to do?
  * Finish save/load
  * Decide upon a win situation
    * Maybe something count based
    * Maybe something positional
* What are your biggest hurdles?
  * Making the owner of a species clearer.  (E.g., border.)
* What advice do you need?
  * Help with TKinter - Why are we getting these stupid error messages/
  * Help with species database (Jordan)
* With whom do you need to work today?
* Comments from the peanut gallery
  * A better way to start the game.  Executable.
  * Will you do everything no one else wants to do?