For some unknown reason, the official handbook of the KarelJ robot has mysteriously disappeared from the university library. It will take me some time to locate another library that offers a book on such an obscure subject as the price in
Amazon is somewhere in my reach, yet feels too far.
This means that I cannot be 100% certain that the task conversion offered by my IDE is compatible with the official one.
Another thing I'd like to mention is the fact that the official website offers several versions, as well as an official (and quite buggy) IDE and links to a couple of other IDEs, some of which (Alice for example) seem to have little relation to Karel.
In fact, I'm not even sure what the
latest official release is. This is what I want to support, and the Karel website is definitely one of the worst I have ever seen.
I have just posted a topic containing links to the official website and a coupe of tutorials on the first steps. Anyone who has a little time, please take a look and try to use them with my IDE. And please, tell me what you think of it. At some point, I too will try to write a simple introduction.
As far as the development goes, there are a couple of good news. First, a SourceForge site has been set up and from now on, only it will host the source code and downloads. (Yays~, no more 4shared) The link on the official thread has been updated. Second, a Mercurial repository has been added to the SourceForge page, and the latest and greatest sources have already been uploaded. Read rights to everyone, if there is anyone willing to contribute, please send me a note. The next version (0.2-5) will include sprites patching, so that you can easily change the sprites to your own liking, which is the main reason why I started this project (didn't like the sprites and the look of
this IDE). It will be released in a couple of days since I want to double check the patching. This means that a release will be ready by the end of the week.
And last but not least: today openSUSE 12.1 is being released. It is my main operating system and I will update to it in the next couple of days. This means that after 0.2-5, only Qt 4.7.4 will be used, although this doesn't matter much.
I am curious as to what Qt5 will offer, but there's a lot of time until it's released next year. I wonder if there will be any migration needed as the one from Qt3 to Qt4. As for the people who don't know what Qt is, check
this page out. The best thing is this:
- Quote :
- Qt (pronounced officially as cute /ˈkjuːt/, though often unofficially pronounced as Q.T. /ˈkjuːˈtiː/)
Cute, ne? ^_^
There is also one more thing I will add in the next version, but it's a secret, I'm not telling now. Teehee~
Oh, and one last thing before this post turns multi-page: all testers get a special place in the readme and forum title, as well as colored names.