Protobowl is a website that allows quizbowl players to face each other online. It is a great study tool, and is used by many good players. Having come to a good break point with my natural selection simulator, I decided it was time for a new project. I emailed one of the members of the protobowl team, Kevin Kwok, asking if he wanted any help. I was expecting not to get a reply, or to be declined, as this is a well established group. Surprisingly, I received a yes. It turns out that Kevin started protobowl during his Junior year in high school. He was very friendly, and told me about a couple projects that he planed on adding. I found interest in making an aster chart to display player’s score by subject, and accuracy within each subject.
Keven wanted me to do this using the Javascript D3 library, which is very powerful, but has a steep learning curve. After some investigation, I managed to find someone else who had made an aster chart using the library, Ben Best. I used his aster chart as the backbone for mine. After building it, I asked Ben Best for permission to use his as the basis for mine, and he accepted. After finishing up the code, the project is now on Github, and I am waiting for a response from Kevin about how we want to implement it. I want to say thank you for Kevin for allowing me onto the team, and thank you to Ben Best for letting me use his code. I am looking forward to my work being implemented, so that I can say that I am part of the protobowl team.