My open source contribution: Xilarius

     What do you want to be in the future? This question is one of the first one that people ask us when we are young. The common question is firefighter, teacher or doctor. So the objective of this project was to change the mind of children, and let them know that it exists another area in which they can specialize since they are young.

     Xilarius is focus in teaching children to code, but in an interactive and fun way. The user has to write the necessary instructions to get the character arrives the goal.

     So with this software, children will learn the basics of programming and will develop their logic.

    This project relates completely to my career, because we code every single part of the project: Xilarius. We create the language that the program accepts, the scanner, the parser, the VM, the graphic design, the interpreter and the compiler.

     The project was developed in python and were used additional tools: PLY (syntatic and lexical analysis), Pygame (graphic environment), Tygame (graphic environment) and PGU (text entry).

Problems during the development
     Most of the problems by developing this project had to be with the graphic part, because we were facing problems with the libraries used. The big problem was that the library does not give the functionality that we wanted. So to solve it, we had to change a part of the code of the library and in another tool we had to search for another library that did what wanted.