[Sugar-devel] A Tale of Sugar and Pippy

2010-06-22 Thread Michael Stone
Last Friday, I visited the MIT Science Fiction Society's library to pick up some books. While visiting, I spoke with a friend about our recently discovered mutual interest in Python in education. Upon hearing that he was unfamiliar with our work, I opened my XO, started Pippy, and left him to

Re: [Sugar-devel] A Tale of Sugar and Pippy

2010-06-22 Thread James Cameron
On Tue, Jun 22, 2010 at 03:39:46AM -0400, Michael Stone wrote: After playing for some time -- perhaps 10 rounds -- we discovered that we had lost track of which ball was currently contested. Yes, I discovered that also in my testing of the example. We sat down to fix the problem. Since no

Re: [Sugar-devel] A Tale of Sugar and Pippy

2010-06-22 Thread Martin Dengler
On Tue, Jun 22, 2010 at 06:07:50PM +1000, James Cameron wrote: On Tue, Jun 22, 2010 at 03:39:46AM -0400, Michael Stone wrote: Here, we reach the end of my tale. You see, my friend and I agreed that our desired next step would be to send our change to sugar-devel@ along with, well, this

Re: [Sugar-devel] A Tale of Sugar and Pippy

2010-06-22 Thread Lucian Branescu
I think all activities should have Report bug on the toolbar somewhere. And of course a system in place on the other end, perhaps email-to-trac? On 22 June 2010 14:25, Martin Dengler mar...@martindengler.com wrote: On Tue, Jun 22, 2010 at 06:07:50PM +1000, James Cameron wrote: On Tue, Jun 22,

Re: [Sugar-devel] A Tale of Sugar and Pippy

2010-06-22 Thread Martin Dengler
On Tue, Jun 22, 2010 at 02:36:42PM +0100, Lucian Branescu wrote: I think all activities should have Report bug on the toolbar somewhere. And of course a system in place on the other end, perhaps email-to-trac? Good idea, but why make every activity implement this? I think a bikeshed icon in

Re: [Sugar-devel] A Tale of Sugar and Pippy

2010-06-22 Thread Martin Dengler
On Tue, Jun 22, 2010 at 02:41:04PM +0100, Martin Dengler wrote: On Tue, Jun 22, 2010 at 02:36:42PM +0100, Lucian Branescu wrote: I think all activities should have Report bug on the toolbar somewhere. And of course a system in place on the other end, perhaps email-to-trac? Good idea, but

Re: [Sugar-devel] A Tale of Sugar and Pippy

2010-06-22 Thread Anish Mangal
I can think of no other operating system which so directly brought his interest from theory to reality. +1: I can think of no other operating system and application which so directly exposes us to the possibility and desirability of making small changes. I agree (as

Re: [Sugar-devel] A Tale of Sugar and Pippy

2010-06-22 Thread Kevin Mark
On Tue, Jun 22, 2010 at 02:25:06PM +0100, Martin Dengler wrote: On Tue, Jun 22, 2010 at 06:07:50PM +1000, James Cameron wrote: On Tue, Jun 22, 2010 at 03:39:46AM -0400, Michael Stone wrote: Here, we reach the end of my tale. You see, my friend and I agreed that our desired next step would

Re: [Sugar-devel] A Tale of Sugar and Pippy

2010-06-22 Thread Gary Martin
On 22 Jun 2010, at 14:36, Lucian Branescu lucian.brane...@gmail.com wrote: I think all activities should have Report bug on the toolbar somewhere. And of course a system in place on the other end, perhaps email-to-trac? Would be great if the Log functionality for uploading log files to a

Re: [Sugar-devel] A Tale of Sugar and Pippy

2010-06-22 Thread Hal Murray
Here, we reach the end of my tale. You see, my friend and I agreed that our desired next step would be to send our change to sugar-devel@ along with, well, this story. -1: Unfortunately, there's no obvious way to do this with Sugar and Pippy today. I don't want to spoil the

Re: [Sugar-devel] A Tale of Sugar and Pippy

2010-06-22 Thread C. Scott Ananian
It might also be worth thinking about how this would play out in Squeak/Etoys. See in particular: http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Smalltalk_Development_on_XO#Submit_your_changes --scott attempting to learn from the community ps. as bert's doing the only multitouch work (that I know of) I've given

Re: [Sugar-devel] A Tale of Sugar and Pippy

2010-06-22 Thread Chris Ball
Hi, I don't want to spoil the party, but what are you going to do if that works and kids from around the world start bombarding sugar-devel with their changes? I should think some kind of party would be in order. :) - Chris. -- Chris Ball c...@laptop.org One Laptop Per Child