Talk:Speedcubing

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I am delighted to discover this topic has been started in the Wikiversity. But, I noticed it has some gaps and missing parts. Perhaps I can help. I wrote a small book which several students at Christian Center School in Alexandria, Virginia, seemed to enjoy. It is NOT Speedcubing, but it is a more nearly complete exploration of elementary Cubology. I intend to place a link to it here, RCB_RubikTOC as soon as I can upload the text (a work in progress) and figure out how to create links. My terminology is NOT THE SAME as the existing material in "Speedcubing", but I think I can adapt. I welcome your comments and hints -- please post to my "User TALK page"! :-D Ray Calvin Baker 15:00, 3 November 2011 (UTC)


 * Is this a complete book? --HappyCamper 06:10, 28 November 2011 (UTC)
 * It seems like if he wrote it. --Sistemx 11:19, 2 December 2011 (UTC)
 * First of all, I would like to direct your attention to the material which has recently been posted in the Wikipedia on "Rubik's Cube".
 * However, my book is complete enough to solve a cube with solid colors on all six sides.
 * Using the "cheat sheet" in Chapter Ten, I can usually solve the cube in under ten minutes (I'm no speedcuber!).
 * I want to write Chapter Eleven to address the problem of solving a "picture cube", where a hidden sub-group of the cube is not hidden.
 * Rotations of the central label on each side show up, and can be rotated out of position.
 * Chapter Twelve is left for users to record their own personal algorithms (there are many possibilities!).
 * I hope to revise my book soon, in an attempt to better adapt to established terminology and notations.
 * I would also like to contribute QB64 BASIC source code, for an interactive computer program which can demonstrate the methods.
 * Sorry for the above unsigned post. I got interruptedhile while trying to add the text. Ray Calvin Baker 21:59, 14 December 2011 (UTC)


 * I am thinking of adding yet another chapter (and an appendix) to my Rubik's Cube book.
 * Chapter Thirteen will be "Source Code for a Demonstration Program", and the appendix will be a journal of my adventures downloading (and learning to use) the free QB64 compiler from the Wikipedia. The tricky tthing will be to USE available materials, without having to re-invent them. My book should "lose a lot of weight" if I can do this reasonably well. For instance, an interactive graphics presentation makes WYSIWYG a possibility that avoids all kinds of complicated, indirect references to the desired locations of the component cubies. I hope to present this soon: (1) select and adjust the colors you would like to use, (2) draw an accurate picture of your (scrambled) Cube, then (3) let the program show you step-by-step how to solve the Cube.


 * Needless to say, I find my first experiences with the Wikiversity to be "lots of brainstorming" as I encounter lots of interesting possibilities, but not quite so much of "finished projects". Nevertheless, even though I am finding that many other contributors have gone before me (as in posting volumes of material in the Wikipedia), I remain convinced that making material accessible to young beginners is a very worth-while goal. So I plan to persist in this effort. Ray Calvin Baker 00:20, 4 January 2012 (UTC)


 * That sounds very encouraging! --HappyCamper 01:57, 4 January 2012 (UTC)