Thanks to all of you that gave me feedback; this is very useful. A new version of Crunchy will soon be out - I "only" have to document the changes in the Crunchy tutorial. This new version will include two new types of interpreters as option, one based on Michael Tobis's suggestion from a few weeks ago, the other based on John Posner's suggestion.
My over-optimistic goal is to have version 1.0 released early in September - for use in the next school year by interested parties. I understand that some students working for Jeff Elkner have been adapting "How to think like a computer scientist" as well as the livewires modules so that they would be best making use of Crunchy. Stay tuned... Cheers, André On 8/22/07, Dethe Elza <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > 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 > _______________________________________________ Edu-sig mailing list [email protected] http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/edu-sig
