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Re: KidSafe FINAL

Posted: Sun Sep 06, 2015 12:26 pm
by webfork
Old thread update: this project appears to be offline with the last official update now almost 5 years ago. The program is archived Google Code site: https://code.google.com/p/kidsafe/ so perhaps someone will take it over.

Re: KidSafe FINAL

Posted: Sun Sep 06, 2015 8:25 pm
by guinness
Source code is in the ZIP file and NOT the SVN trunk, which contains an AutoIt script file. Honestly if someone is to takeover this project, then good luck. It states it's written in C++, but is actually written in RealBASIC, with source code in the repo being AutoIt. Yeah, confused? I am as well.

Re: KidSafe FINAL

Posted: Mon Sep 07, 2015 10:22 am
by webfork
guinness wrote:... confused? I am as well.
<Sigh.>

Re: KidSafe FINAL

Posted: Tue Apr 19, 2016 12:02 pm
by webfork
Old thread update:

Although I think this project is more than dead, I'll go ahead and post an idea that I held off posting about during all the back and forth about going closed source that happened with this tool.

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Idea

A word problems system using language that most kids wouldn't even try to break open. Something with confusing word-play that would get swapped out each time. The format would be

1. [confusing, technical sounding intro sentence]
2. [define terms and size]
3. [another sentence similar to #1]
4. [ask a simple question about #2]

So for example:

[1] For every four #5842 wires, we can make one catalog B wire and without the catalog B wire, there's no extensions for the #2342 . [2] The #2342 wire is 222 feet long and we've four of those and seven #5842 wires. [3] The catalog B wire doesn't add any length, just lets us put two #2342 wires end-to-end. [4] How many feet long are all the #2342 wires?

Here, the real question is a fairly simple "what is 4 x 222?" (888) but the question relies on kids' inability to dig through complex language. You'd just have to come up with some complex wording, change the wire #s, and come up with some basic math to swap out so that each question is unique.

Anyway, maybe someone will use this idea in the future.

Re: KidSafe FINAL

Posted: Wed Sep 14, 2016 3:34 pm
by webfork
Another old thread update: So it looks like a lot of nothing happened after activity on this thread died down. The dates listed on the Google Code home page https://code.google.com/archive/p/kidsafe/downloads roughly correspond to that time frame and the home page that rcmaehl lists in his profile fcofix.org is offline.

Re: KidSafe FINAL

Posted: Thu Dec 23, 2021 9:33 am
by webfork
Another KidSafe alternative, this one claiming portability:
https://www.softpedia.com/get/PORTABLE- ... Lock.shtml

Doesn't appear to be listed on the developer home page anymore: http://www.100dof.com