Practical for Students of the ETH Zurich at the departement ITET

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History

In 2004, Patrick Boenzli? and Benjamin Grauer started to create Orxonox. In the autumn semester of 2005, they decided to offer Orxonox as a PPS at the ETH. The goal was to teach the students about open source development and to deepen their knowledge of programming and modeling and, last but not least, to create a cool game.

Since that time a lot has changed: The two fathers of Orxonox finished their studies and so former students of the PPS took over and continued the PPS. Every semester, the growing group of developers meet and organize a new PPS. There they try to learn from earlier mistakes and to build on gained experienc. Because in the end, all we want is our students being happy with their work and experience in our PPS.

Information

If you're a student at the ETH Zürich at the departement ITET and you're in the second year, you can participate in our PPS. The Project is intended for students interested in game development or programming and modeling in general. Feel free to look around on our page to find something you're interested in.

Facts about our PPS:

• You get 8 PPS-points
• The PPS takes place on Wednesday, 13:15 until 16:00
• The PPS starts at the 24th of September 2008
• Rooms: ETZ H91 and ETF C 109 (teaching, courses, tutorials) and ETL F11 (coding sessions). You will be informed about room changes via email.
• Requirements: You should at least be able to work on a computer. Most things will be taught by us, but we're not unhappy if you already know stuff about open source development tools.
  • Coding: Knowledge from the first year of the electrical engineering studies is sufficient
  • Design: Basic knowledge of image editing or 3D modeling

Also: This is not a useless PPS, where you learn nothing and just get over with. Everything you do in the PPS will be used in Orxonox and helps to make it better.

For more information feel free to contact the PPS leaders:

• Fabian 'x3n' Landau?
• Felix 'BadElvis' Schulthess?
• Reto '1337' Grieder?
• Oli 'greenman' Scheuss?.

Timetable

Date	Time	Room	Topic	Slides
24. sep. 2008	13:15	ETZ H91	Introduction and Modeling	Intruduction, Modeling, Tutorial?
1. oct. 2008	13:15	ETF C109	Framework and coding tutorial	​SVN, ​Ogre, ​Input, Tutorial?
8. oct. 2008	13:15	ETF C109	Deepening introduction, discussion of the ticket	​Coding, ​Styleguide, ​Debugging, ​STL

Projects

For a list of the open tickets go here.

Ticket	Project	Code/CC	Difficulty	Student
#266	Object Priorities	Code	+	Christian Peter?
#279	Planets	CC	+	Marian Runo?
#262	Physics Engine	Code	++	Martin Stypinski?
#263	Artificial Intelligence (AI)	Code	++
#271	Sound Engine	Code	.
#278	Multiple builds support	Other	-	Adrian Friedli?
#272	Editor	Code	+
#268	Modular Space Station	CC	+	Mirko Kaiser?
#269	Enhance Older Models	CC	.	Axel Bomhauer-Beins?
#270	Basic Weapon Concept	Code	.	Martin Polak?
#273	Quest System	Code	.	Damian Frick?
#274	Spaceship Navigation	Code/CC	.
#275	Environment	Code/CC	+
#276	Particle Effects	Code/CC	.
#277	Pickup System	Code	+	David Sommer?
#251	Designing and scripting GUI sheets	Code/CC	.
#280	Overlays (Scoreboard, …)	Code/CC	.	Benjamin Hildebrandt?
#281	Space Race	Code	.
#282	Formation flight	Code	+
#267	Improving the HUD	Code/CC	.
#265	Loading Bar	Code/CC	-
#264	Binary distribution	Other	-

Students involved

This ​link refers to the thread in the forum for the new students.

PPS Archive

Have a look at the past PPS semesters in the PPS Archive?.