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Simple program that aims to generate some mathematical & language puzzles for children and when having puzzles completed then some URL given site is launched (eg. netflix, youtube etc.).

Motivation

Having a daughter which said "That was a very good day. I watched a lot of cartoons." , aim of this project is to use children motivation to watch cartoons for educational purposes.

Features:

• math puzzels: adding, substracting, multiplication, division, counting, text puzzles, buying puzzle
• language vocabulary puzzles: matching a word describing picture with appropriate picture
• maze puzzles
• Starts a netfix/youtube via browser and set timeout for watching, then shutdowns the system
• fully configurable:
  • number of puzzles
  • range of values for math puzzles
  • number of sessions of watching per day
• With each solved puzzle without mistake, time for watching cartoons is increased by one minutes

Installation

• Ideally this program should run in mouse-less window manager and add to startup scripts.
• Add your children account(s) to sudoers group so at least shutdown can be executed without password
• install prerequisities

Testing

Running unit tests" python -m pytest -vvv test_equations.py Running unit tests with dropping into debugger on failures: python -m pytest -vvv test_equations.py --pdb

Prerequisite

• google chrome
• python2 with pytest-qt, PyQt4
• festival Text to Speech projects
• accound for children with sudo priviligies to shutdown command
• Linux OS

Screenshots & Videos

Counting puzzle: Math(adding): Math(text puzzle): Math(buying puzzle): language puzzle: clock puzzle: maze puzzle: memory puzzle: snail puzzle: dialogues puzzle: Choose URL to launch(netflix, youtube: setting maximum value for math puzzles from commandline:

Recording of gameplay:

License

Copyright (c) 2016, Jacek Czaja All rights reserved.

Redistribution and use in source and binary forms, with or without modification, are permitted provided that the following conditions are met:

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Additional Notes:

• Images for language puzzles comes from UVic Humanities Computing and Media Centre and Half-Baked Software
  http://hcmc.uvic.ca/clipart/