System of Making Gulab Jamun

The system includes the chef, the ingredients, the baking utensils, and time. The chef combines the ingredients using time, and the cooking utensils to make the final product.

Reflection of Process

What is the most important thing you learned in this project? ------I knew different components of tynker before this, but putting them into action was a pain and harder than I ------thought. I also learnt the importance of saving as I lost most of my work because i forgot to save :'D What is the most important thing you learned in this project? • What do you wish you had spent more time on or done differently? ⁃ I wish I had a smoother way to incorporate the sounds. It also would have been better if I had more variety in the interactive portion. • What part of the project did you do your best work on? ⁃ I like the way my ingredients pop up when the chef calls it and how whenever the person presses the right key during certain instructions, the ingredients float to the pan • What was the most enjoyable part of this project? ⁃ I liked putting together the blocks and creating the actual design. • What was the least enjoyable part of this project? ⁃ I think blogging was a bit dull....

Tynker page

Watch the interactive demo, and follow the chef's commands to advance through the plot

Final Project Planning

  1. My project is going to be how to make gulab jamun

  2. My final product/goal/accomplishment will be to enlighten people on the arts of gulab

  3. What do I need to know about my topic to be successful? - The recipe and detailed images

  4. What programming skills will I utilize? What do I need to learn about? - Movement for my actors, scene shifting. I need to learn more about changing scenes

  5. What will be easy about this project?- Adding actors and moving them

  6. What will be difficult about this project? - Integrating outside sources



   * What is your vision for how things might be in the future related to this issue?
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      * People might take interest in making this or try the sweet themselves
   * What system(s) and parts of the system(s) are at work in this issue?
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      * The cycle of making food and reusing ingredients.
   * What are the relationships among system components?
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      * 2 separate categories: Tools to make the food, and ingredients the outcome is made out of.
   * How does the issue with which you are dealing reveal trouble in the system?
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      * People who have never tried gulab jamun before will be confused at first
   * How are you a part of the system(s)? How do your behaviors affect the system and how does the system affect your behaviors?
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      * I / the actor, is the chef and makes the food. W/o the person there is no outcome
   * How do you want to influence the system(s) and parts of the system(s)?
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      * I want to make the food myself and teach others how to.
   * What experience, skills, relationships, and resources do you bring to this effort?
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      *  I have made jamun a couple times and eaten it a lot.

Citation for image:
Halal Gulab Jamun Indian Celebration Sweets. Photography. Encyclopædia Britannica ImageQuest. Web. 7 May 2014. 

Day 2

The project is well underway. I have added 13 new actors, making a total of 15 actors: 10 are food ingredients, 1 is the chef, and the rest are utensils. I have integrated many uses of broadcasting to signal actors to move onto their next part. For the interactive subset of the project, I require the player to push different letter keys as the chef instructs to move onto the next step of baking.


I also added a background image of the actual jamun. Citation:
Halal Gulab Jamun Indian Celebration Sweets. Photography. Encyclopædia Britannica ImageQuest. Web. 7 May 2014.