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What steps will reproduce the problem?
1. Switch to reverse gear
2. drive backwards
3. push right arrow (like turning steering wheel to the right?)
4. nose of car goes to the right

What is the expected output? What do you see instead?
Steering should be switched when driving in reverse.

What version of the product are you using? On what operating system?
carcode2.zip on Ubuntu 7.10

Please provide any additional information below.

I got this error by doing the following on Ubuntu:

1. Ran 'python carcode.py'
2. Selected 'Start Carcode'
3. Clicked 'x' on the window to close it.
4. Chose 'yes'

$ python carcode.py
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "carcode.py", line 41, in <module>
    main()
  File "carcode.py", line 36, in main
    if opts.monkey:
AttributeError: Values instance has no attribute 'monkey'

I don't see where the keys for controlling the car by hand are listed; they
should be added at least to the documentation somewhere.

The current pre-summer 2008 version of the trunk has been tagged as
tags/version0.

The next major milestone version will be named "version1", and should
include, at least, pixel color sensors and programmatic control of the
course. This should hopefully be done by the end of Summer 2008.

To help make the roads look more like roads, dashed white/yellow lines
could be added down the middle. Plus, the road should be wide enough to fit
a little more than two cards side-by-side (e.g. one going in direction on
the road).

carcode should be incredibly easy to install, even if the user does not
have Python and pygame installed. Thus, we want to create a package that
novices can download, and have it automatically set up carcode,
automatically installing Python and pygame if necessary.

Ideally, this should work on Linux, Windows, and the Mac. However, Linux
and Windows (in that order) have priority over the Mac.

Installation is a common task, and there are a number of possible
approaches that could be take. Thus, some research is needed to decide how
to go about it.

When running the parking.py demo level, I did not understand what "park
horizontally" meant. I tried parking the car both forward and backwards,
but neither time was the objective achieved.

So I think the "park horizontally" objective needs to be clarified, or the
satisfaction conditions checked.

When I run 'python carcode.py' in the current gsoc08 branch on Ubuntu I get
this error:

$ python carcode.py
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "carcode.py", line 38, in <module>
    main()
  File "carcode.py", line 32, in main
    app = CarcodeApp(800, 600)
  File "/home/toby/svn/carcode/branches/gsoc08/libcarcode/app.py", line 74,
in __init__
    self.screen = pygame.display.set_mode((width, height), OPENGL | DOUBLEBUF)
pygame.error: Couldn't find matching GLX visual

On the initial start-up screen, the top-most box is labelled "Start Carcode".

But carcode has already been started, and so that box should have a more
accurate name, like "Interact with Carcode".

There are many tools and packages for helping beginners to learn software.
It would be helpful to explain how carcode compares to things such as:

- turtle graphics
- Logo
- Squeak
- Lego NXT 
- etc.

These comparisons should not be just marketing, but comparisons that readl
teachers/learners would find helpful.

What steps will reproduce the problem?
1. Unzip carcode2.zip
2. files scatter in the current folder

What is the expected output? What do you see instead?
A new folder (carcode) full of the extracted files.

What version of the product are you using? On what operating system?
carcode2.zip on Ubuntu 7.10

Please provide any additional information below.

For the "Load Level" option, it would be better if the files listed were
from a standard "levels" directory, as opposed to the top-level carcode
directory. Then new users would be immediately presented with a list of
levels to choose from.

Create a friendly home page for carcode aimed at potential users (as
opposed to developers). One one east-to-read page it should have:

- A one or two sentence description of what carcode is about and who would
want to use it.

- Links to screenshots, code examples, and other "taster" materials.

- Links to the latest downloads.

etc.

It's a bit difficult to figure out what end of the graphical car is the
front, and what is the rear. Perhaps some simple change could be made for
now to make this clearer. Later a fancier car graphic could always be added.

For teachers/learners who want a video of carcode, a screencast (or two)
showing to run and use it could be useful.

The window that pops up from running 'python carcode.py' currently has the
name 'pygame window'.

It would be more helpful during development to change it to something like
'carcode v3.0 alpha 1', and of course update that for each new version.