Monday, September 18, 2006

SIFE Project

I was studying at a table in the place where Whitney works today and I overheard parts of a SIFE (Students In Free Enterprise) meeting. Turns out that they had found someone from DeVry last year to program this game on the web for them to teach middle schools students about tariffs and imports and stuff. Unfortunately, it turned out like garbage as you can see by visiting its current state of existence. It doesn't really work properly, the interface sucks, and it doesn't scale to the size of the browser window (and apparently it was designed for a higher res than 1024x768). They were discussing how to go about finding someone here on campus to rebuild it from scratch for them. I decided to help em out, so it looks like I will be making a web application.....YAY! This should be a fun project and it will be a great learning experience for me given my limited experience with web apps. When I finish it I will post a link to the results.

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