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User Manual for Music Blocks  Music Blocks is a free and open source, browser based software, designed basically for students to learn music in fun and interactive way. To get started with Music Blocks, newbies need to have a fundamental understanding of the software, what are the things that can be done and importantly how things can be done. To address these requirements, Music Blocks has two guides: ' Using Music Blocks ' and ' Music Blocks Guide '. But the existing user guides lacks most of the important information about the software components, how each building blocks in the software can be related to music and especially some examples of how to create music with the software. Project Objective: To create a user manual which would be a comprehensive guide while providing samples and related explanations. Project Deliverables: In my project proposal , I defined following deliverables: Improve the Music blocks user guide content to be easily un...

Hello.. this is my update over last two weeks and happy that I passed the second evaluation! :D In my last blog update , I have mentioned about some issues to fix with PDF generation process. By now I have fixed those issues and PDF is generating properly. Created a user interface for ' Contributing to Music Blocks ' and currently working on database integration to this interface. Added content for 'Credits' page. Planned an approach for ' Examples With Music Blocks ' section by discussing with mentors and designed the summary page. For the example, 'Hot Cross Buns - First Form Discovery Start', one of my mentors shared a progressive series of 14 sub activities each adding one-two blocks and build up Hot Cross Buns and I am currently creating GIFs for those examples set and for other examples. Added the content to some pages in 'Components of Music Block's section. Box blocks Flow blocks Number blocks Sensor blocks Media...