Excelente !! Qué buen trabajo han hecho acá. Esto me ha dado varias ideas para nuevos desarrollos.
Felicitaciones por este trabajo. Yo he iniciado un nuevo y largo camino de estudio sobre nuevas formas y herramientas de desarrollo de software que me tiene fascinado y muy ocupado, pero espero poder aportar cosas interesantes dentro de algunos meses más. 2016-02-09 18:41 GMT-03:00 rosamel norma ramirez mendez < [email protected]>: > > I have been pleased with : > > > https://walterbender.githu <https://walterbender.github.io/musicblocks>b... > > > > El 9 feb. 2016, a las 6:27 p.m., Walter Bender <[email protected]> > escribió: > > == Sugar Digest == > > Ten days ago, my mentor and friend Marvin Minsky passed away. As one of > the co-founders of the field of Artificial Intelligence, his passing has > been widely covered by the press and many notable colleagues has blogged > about his numerous intellectual contributions. I have little to add > regarding his contributions to AI, although I had the pleasure of many > conversations with him about the ideas he discusses in Society of Mind and > The Emotion Machine. > > Perhaps less well known are some of Marvin's writing on learning. He was a > long-time colleague of Seymour Papert and made significant contributions to > Logo and the core ideas of Construtionism. (He built one of the first Logo > "turtles" and, along with Ed Fredkin, invented the digital synthesizer, > which he interfaced to Logo.) While I was at One Laptop per Child, I > commissioned him to write some essays on learning (See [1]). Alas, we will > never get to read the final four essays in the series (Future Essays). > > Spending time with Marvin was always a pleasure: the range of topics > discussed, the challenging of every assumption and convention, the > unquenchable curiosity, and the generosity with ideas, critique, and > reflection is in my experience unmatched. > > I promise to take the time to share some recollections from our time > together over the coming months, beginning here with a scenario I saw > repeated on numerous occasions. In the days of overhead projectors, when > Marvin would give a lecture he would (I always presumed deliberately) drop > his slides on the floor as he approached the projector. He'd then look > down, pick one up seeming at random, put it on the projector, and then dive > into a fascinating discourse, not necessarily on topic, but always well > worth the time and attention of his audience. Marvin was always at his best > when he was unleashed. > > Marvin had a beautiful mind and a beautiful spirit. He is dearly missed. > > 1. A warm welcome to the new Sugar Labs oversight board: Walter Bender; > Lionel Laské; Adam Holt; Sameer Verma; Claudia Urrea; Tony Anderson; and > José Miguel García. We'll hold our first meeting this Friday at 16 UTC on > irc.freenode.net #sugar. Please join us. > > Many thanks to Daniel Francis, Gonzalo Odiard, and Chris Leonard whom have > served many years on the oversight board and continue to make numerous > contributions to the Sugar community. > > 2. Google Code-In is over and the mentor team has selected our two > grand-prize winners: Piotr Antosz (from Poland) and Ezequiel Pereira Lopez > (from Uruguay). While it is never an easy decision -- we had many strong > contenders for the top two spots -- I am quite pleased with the decision as > both Piotr and Ezequiel did great work and have deeply engaged with the > community. Congratulations to both of them. And, again, thank you to all of > the contestants and to the mentors. > > 3. One topic I hope to discuss on Friday is Google Summer of Code 2016. > I've set up a preliminary page in the wiki [2] to get the application > process start (I am presuming that the oversight board will agree to > participate again this year). Please add project suggests to the wiki. > > === In the Community === > > 4. I just returned from Constructionism 2016 (See [3]), a "bi-annual > gathering of researchers and practitioners of the constructionist learning > philosophy is intended to be a place to showcase lessons learned, > innovative learning tools, new case studies, and novel approaches that has > been happening throughout the world." A number of Sugar Labs community > members were there, including Cynthia Solomon, Claudia Urrea, and Devin > Ulibarri. Devin and I spoke about Music Blocks and along with Cynthia and > Claudia, we ran several workshops for children and teachers. Lots of great > feedback and many new and renewed connections. (Our host, Khun Paron, has > been an advocate for Sugar for almost a decade.) The entire conference was > videotaped and will be posted online soon. Be sure to watch Cynthia's > keynote address in which she reviewed the history of Constructionism, which > has had a great influence on the design and development of Sugar. > > 5. Music Blocks is a fork the Turtle Blocks program that we began last > year during GSoC. Our goal is for Music Blocks to be an open-ended, yet > musically relevant tool—one that invites learners to explore fundamental > musical concepts that are both intrinsic to music yet transcendent of a > specific discipline. > > The structure of our workshops included the concept of a "Power Piece". A > power piece is a melody or a song that is taught because it is powerful and > becomes more powerful as it is taught. Children took phrases of some > familiar music as a basis of exploring and manipulating the music through > programming. > > As a result of feedback from the workshops, I have made a number of > improvements to Music Blocks [4]. It is much more robust and internally > consistent. Please do try it (there is a guide at [5]) and give me > additional feedback. > > By coincidence, I subsequently read in Stephen Wolfram's blog about Marvin > Minsky that "Marvin immediately launched into talking about how programming > languages are the only ones that people are expected to learn to write > before they can read. He said he’d been trying to convince Seymour Papert > that the best way to teach programming was to start by showing people good > code. He gave the example of teaching music by giving people Eine kleine > Nachtmusik, and asking them to transpose it to a different rhythm and see > what bugs occur." > > Papert did speak of the need for guidance, both in the programming > environment itself and in the teacher’s facilitating a child's exploration > of it. Power Pieces introduce rich musical ideas that can be studied, > analyzed, transformed, and > re-imagined, they are ripe for open-ended explorations as part of > workshops. > > During the workshops (and at the conference) Devin and I both stood on our > "soap boxes" in support of Free/Libre Software. Using computers and > programming software to run on computers is a powerful means to drive > learning. Free Software raises the ceiling by enabling student > contributions to the design, the documentation, and the code itself. > > Tip of the hat to Sawaros Thanapornsangsuth, who translated Music Blocks > into Thai for our workshops. > > === Tech Talk === > > 6. The Sugar Labs systems team has been busy upgrading our servers. Thanks > to their efforts we have had very little down time in the past few years. > > === Sugar Labs === > > 7. Please visit our planet [7]. > > ---- > > [1] http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Marvin_Minsky_essays > [2] https://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Summer_of_Code/2016 > [3] http://e-school.kmutt.ac.th/constructionism2016/ > [4] https://walterbender.github.io/musicblocks > [5] > https://github.com/walterbender/musicblocks/blob/master/guide/README.md > [6] > http://blog.stephenwolfram.com/2016/01/farewell-marvin-minsky-19272016/ > [7] http://planet.sugarlabs.org > > -walter > > -- > Walter Bender > Sugar Labs > http://www.sugarlabs.org > > _______________________________________________ > Lista olpc-Sur > [email protected] > http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/olpc-sur > > > _______________________________________________ > Lista olpc-Sur > [email protected] > http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/olpc-sur > >
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