Contributing to the development of this program

I hope that that program will become a group project, with the aim of producing a strong portable program for playing Chu Shogi (see the prospectus). There are several ways you can contribute to this project.

Graphics

Steve Evans has provided all the graphics so far, for which I am truly grateful, as it is quite beyond me. But I think better pieces would be pleasant.

Bugs

Please report every suspected bug you find(see BUGS).

Suggestions

Any suggestions for improvements will be welcome.

Programming

If you are a programmer (or if you want to learn programming - there is a NetRexx tutorial on the NetRexx web site (see below), and it's a good language to learn as a starter), then you can help my doing some of the programming yourself (contact me first to make sure you are not overlapping with anyone else). The programme is written in NetRexx (so far, version 2 will be in another language as well), which compiles to Java code. NetRexx is very easy to learn, and if you already know Java then it's particularly easy to pick up (hint, the trace instruction is most helpful for debugging).

You will need to download and install the NetRexx compiler, from: http://www2.hursley.ibm.co.uk/netrexx/nrdown.htm.

You will also need a JDK, rather than a JRE, but know doubt you already know this.

Please send me any code changes as patch files only (using the diff command, or equivalent), unless you are writing a completely new class. But I will still need a diff against the Makefile, in that circumstance.

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