Not a school, but some data points for you in this world where ultra-mobile computers (cell phones, PDAs, etc) may be out-pacing the growth of desktops and faux-desktop laptops:
Nokia N800 web appliance (my travel computer, together with a fold-up bluetooth keyboard it weighs about a pound, a third of that without the keyboard): 800 x 480 resolution. Runs PyGame nicely, has Python 2.5 as an optional install, Linux-based. The OLPC XO is 1200 x 900 (and more amazingly, 200 DPI) and also runs PyGame, so my N800 serves as a development platform for the XO until I can get my hands on the real thing. Right now I'm working on a Scratch-like environment for kids built on top of PyGame. My son just got an extremely powerful computer for his 7th birthday: a Nintendo DS (two screens, one touch-sensitive). Every game he plays, he sits down to sketch out how he would write it in Scratch, complete with wireframes, event handling, etc. Scratch has been an amazing force in our house. Right now he and his sister (who also has a DS) are playing games against each other wirelessly, without any support infrastructure (The DS creates its own wireless network). This is their world, they expect everything to be able to be programmable, connectable, hackable (they read my copies of Make magazine before I do and plan out their hardware projects: we'll be building an MP3 player when we get back from vacation). Hope all of you are well. Greetings from Sofia, Bulgaria. --Dethe _______________________________________________ Edu-sig mailing list [email protected] http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/edu-sig
