Beta testers!

[Chrisss]

I hope this is cool with the forum rules, basically we're looking for 'beta testers' for our university project, it's nothing overly fancy but hopefully it'll turn out good, it's a typing tutor with uses RSS feeds to provide typing material from sites such as the BBC.

Our wiki - http://n-type.sourceforge.net/index.php/User_documentation#Information_for_testers

So if you're still interested (or have nothing better to do) then we'd appreciate you on board, and it won't involve doing much on your behalf. We have a couple of people on board already but it'd be great to here more opinions about the project as we go along. We're looking for anyone and everyone really, even if it means as little as posting a quick opinion on what you'd like from a typing tutor, or d/ling the program and telling us what you dislike about it.

You can grab the alpha from Soureforge or from SVN, (all detailed on our Wiki) and if you have time could you answer these questions on our forum (will take 1-2 mins) - and look out for the beta in a few days time...

Thanks

Edit...fixed link

 

[Chrisss]

If anyone's interested, there's a beta available now, which includes a fully working RSS part, profiles, the ability to type out articles as well as a bit of statistical feedback.

http://sourceforge.net/projects/n-type

(we need a few testers still!)

 

[Chrisss]

Ok thanks for that, can I ask what version of Java are you using?

 

[Chrisss]

Ok, I think it must require 1.5 to run at the moment.

 

[Chrisss]

It seems we use a fair bit of 1.5+ specific code, so unfortunately 1.4 isn't supported.

 

[Chrisss]

Cool, any feedback about it?

 

[Chrisss]

Yeah, the problem is trying to tell the user they've mistyped something without the effect being too distracting.

I think the current plan is to make any mistyped letters expand and then quickly fade away.

Anyway cheers.

 

[Chrisss]

Final beta is now out, it's come a long way recently, please check it out and give feedback

Here are some screenies...