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If you're interested in working with Catherine DeJager on her D&D Simulator project, she will have a group working on it Tuesday at 7pm in the Gold Lab. It's a D&D 5e combat simulator, written in Python. You can see the code she has so far at <span style="font-family:Calibri,Helvetica,sans-serif,serif,EmojiFont; font-size:16px; background-color:rgb(255,255,255); display:inline!important"> </span><a href="https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__gitlab.com_cmd16_dnd-2D5e-2Dcombat&d=DwMF-g&c=4rZ6NPIETe-LE5i2KBR4rw&r=RETd07_84AAWNHy3_XnGfu607BBOainWRNg8YFxnWIU&m=GPvpmoMMEGujqA3UX9pHxIiBOX_yDItJ3VWaJNBgrK4&s=iSZfr3TmM7ez_kbpTw0lz2tdi9xkvRK-Et_UFqYWrxg&e=" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" style="margin:0px; font-size:16px; font-family:Calibri,Helvetica,sans-serif,serif,EmojiFont; background-color:rgb(255,255,255)">https://gitlab.com/cmd16/dnd-5e-combat</a>.
If you have more questions about that, email her at cmd38.</div>
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Note from Catherine about her project:</div>
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<span style="margin: 0px">I'm working on a D&D 5e combat simulator in Python and am recruiting other people to collaborate with me on the project. The team I've formed is having our first </span><span style="margin: 0px">meeting at 7pm this Tuesday </span><span style="margin: 0px">in
the gold lab, and anybody interested in the project is welcome to join. More details about the project are as follows:</span><br>
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The project can be found at <a href="https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__gitlab.com_cmd16_dnd-2D5e-2Dcombat&d=DwMF-g&c=4rZ6NPIETe-LE5i2KBR4rw&r=RETd07_84AAWNHy3_XnGfu607BBOainWRNg8YFxnWIU&m=GPvpmoMMEGujqA3UX9pHxIiBOX_yDItJ3VWaJNBgrK4&s=iSZfr3TmM7ez_kbpTw0lz2tdi9xkvRK-Et_UFqYWrxg&e=" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" style="margin: 0px">https://gitlab.com/cmd16/dnd-<span style="margin: 0px">5e</span>-combat</a> (the project is on GitLab and not GitHub because
GitHub has built in continuous integration, which means we can run tests and build documentation every time the code is pushed).</div>
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<a href="https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__gitlab.com_cmd16_dnd-2D5e-2Dcombat&d=DwMF-g&c=4rZ6NPIETe-LE5i2KBR4rw&r=RETd07_84AAWNHy3_XnGfu607BBOainWRNg8YFxnWIU&m=GPvpmoMMEGujqA3UX9pHxIiBOX_yDItJ3VWaJNBgrK4&s=iSZfr3TmM7ez_kbpTw0lz2tdi9xkvRK-Et_UFqYWrxg&e=" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" style="margin: 0px; text-align: center; display: table-cell"><img style="margin: 0px; vertical-align: bottom; display: inline-block; width: 128px; height: 128px; max-width: 250px; max-height: 250px" src="https://assets.gitlab-static.net/assets/gitlab_logo-7ae504fe4f68fdebb3c2034e36621930cd36ea87924c11ff65dbcb8ed50dca58.png"></a></div>
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<a href="https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__gitlab.com_cmd16_dnd-2D5e-2Dcombat&d=DwMF-g&c=4rZ6NPIETe-LE5i2KBR4rw&r=RETd07_84AAWNHy3_XnGfu607BBOainWRNg8YFxnWIU&m=GPvpmoMMEGujqA3UX9pHxIiBOX_yDItJ3VWaJNBgrK4&s=iSZfr3TmM7ez_kbpTw0lz2tdi9xkvRK-Et_UFqYWrxg&e=" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" style="margin: 0px; text-decoration-line: none">Catherine DeJager / dnd-<span style="margin: 0px">5e</span>-combat</a></div>
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Script for simulating combat using D&D <span style="margin: 0px">5e</span>mechanics and statistics.</div>
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<span style="margin: 0px">Here’s how you can contribute:</span><br>
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<li><span style="margin: 0px; font-size: 12pt; color: black">When you get a chance, look at the code and the documentation. If anything seems confusing or incorrect to you, submit an issue describing your concern. (If you can’t figure out how to submit an issue,
email me.)</span></li><li><span style="margin: 0px; font-size: 12pt; color: black"></span>Look at my stated goals/questions for the meeting (<a href="https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__gitlab.com_cmd16_dnd-2D5e-2Dcombat_issues_125&d=DwMF-g&c=4rZ6NPIETe-LE5i2KBR4rw&r=RETd07_84AAWNHy3_XnGfu607BBOainWRNg8YFxnWIU&m=GPvpmoMMEGujqA3UX9pHxIiBOX_yDItJ3VWaJNBgrK4&s=77SQS9jbXsAuVVZxfN-rt-hivYOeswhrClrsSIqtd-E&e=" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" style="margin: 0px">https://gitlab.com/cmd16/dnd-<span style="margin: 0px">5e</span>-combat/issues/125</a>)
and think about how you might answer them. </li><li>Think about your skills, areas of expertise, and areas of interest. That helps us figure out how you can best contribute. </li></ul>
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If you know more people who would be well suited to this project, feel free to let me know. Team members should have basic knowledge of both programming (knowledge of Python is helpful but not required) and D&D. In addition, there are some skills/knowledge
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<li>Detailed knowledge of how Python works under the hood so that we can ensure the code is efficient in terms of speed and memory usage and exhibits the desired behavior.</li><li>Knowledge/experience writing code for video games (note: this program is not meant to play D&D perfectly, it's just meant to model how humans play D&D. However, I expect that knowledge of the design patterns and data structures used in video games will
still be useful here.)</li><li>Docker</li><li>Sphinx (especially with the autodoc extension)</li></ul>
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