Re: [Sugar-devel] [IAEP] Sugar Digest 2012-09-18

2012-09-23 Thread Agustin Zubiaga Sanchez
Hi, everybody. Like Daniel, I'm from Uruguay and I feel identified with the Walter message. I'm fourteen years old, and I started using sugar when I was ten, when I receive my XO was the first time that I used linux and it liked me a lot. About the young programmers: I was a student of Flavio Dane

Re: [Sugar-devel] [IAEP] Sugar Digest 2012-09-18

2012-09-23 Thread S. Daniel Francis
2012/9/23 Agustin Zubiaga Sanchez : > Hi, everybody. > Like Daniel, I'm from Uruguay and I feel identified with the Walter message. Hi Agustin! > I'm fourteen years old, and I started using sugar when I was ten, when I > receive my XO was the first time that I used linux and it liked me a lot. > >

Re: [Sugar-devel] [IAEP] Sugar Digest 2012-09-18

2012-09-23 Thread Chris Leonard
On Sun, Sep 23, 2012 at 3:53 PM, S. Daniel Francis wrote: > 2012/9/23 Agustin Zubiaga Sanchez : >> About the young programmers: >> I was a student of Flavio Danesse, and he taught me a lot but for obvious >> reasons I had to appeal the internet to found more information, where the >> most are in

Re: [Sugar-devel] [IAEP] Sugar Digest 2012-09-18

2012-09-23 Thread S. Daniel Francis
2012/9/23 Chris Leonard : > I would love to see more of the Spanish-only activities > present in ASLO take this step to i18n so that they can be used by > other XO kids around the world in their mother tongues. A good way would be if the ASLO editors request the authors to internationalize their a

Re: [Sugar-devel] [IAEP] Sugar Digest 2012-09-18

2012-09-23 Thread Kevin Mark
Hello Agustin from the US :) --- On Sun, 9/23/12, Agustin Zubiaga Sanchez wrote: From: Agustin Zubiaga Sanchez Subject: Re: [Sugar-devel] [IAEP] Sugar Digest 2012-09-18 To: "Gonzalo Odiard" Cc: "James Simmons" , "iaep" , "Sugar-dev Devel" , community-n...@lists.sugarlabs.org, "S. Daniel Fra

Re: [Sugar-devel] [IAEP] Sugar Digest 2012-09-18

2012-09-23 Thread Kevin Mark
--- On Sun, 9/23/12, S. Daniel Francis wrote: > From: S. Daniel Francis > Subject: Re: [Sugar-devel] [IAEP] Sugar Digest 2012-09-18 > To: "Agustin Zubiaga Sanchez" > Cc: "iaep" , "Sugar-dev Devel" > , community-n...@lists.sugarlabs.org > Date: Sunday, September 23, 2012, 3:53 PM > 2012/9/23

Re: [Sugar-devel] [IAEP] Sugar Digest 2012-09-18

2012-09-23 Thread S. Daniel Francis
> but where I worked, it was like this: > #!/usr/bin/python > # questo è il modo in cui il punteggio di corrispondenza viene calcolato > partida = calcio101+calcio02 Ciao Mondo! :) # Just regarding the Sugar Paint activity mixes English and Portuguese of its original maintainers. Now # with all th

Re: [Sugar-devel] [IAEP] Sugar Digest 2012-09-18

2012-09-23 Thread James Cameron
On Sun, Sep 23, 2012 at 02:19:38PM -0700, Kevin Mark wrote: > We need to 'clone' this person, we need more who can do what he is > doing! Find out from this person what hindered them, and remove that hindrance from others? ;-) -- James Cameron http://quozl.linux.org.au/

Re: [Sugar-devel] [IAEP] Sugar Digest 2012-09-18

2012-09-23 Thread Gonzalo Odiard
> > > # Just regarding the Sugar Paint activity mixes English and Portuguese > of its original maintainers. Now > # with all the changes and patches it conserves only some words, > specially file names like "desenho" > # instead design. > > Paint activity was developed by a Brazilian team and a lot

Re: [Sugar-devel] [IAEP] Sugar Digest 2012-09-18

2012-09-23 Thread James Cameron
On Sun, Sep 23, 2012 at 07:53:35PM -0300, Gonzalo Odiard wrote: > Paint activity was developed by a Brazilian team and a lot of variables > had Portuguese names. > Whit the time, we changed a lot, but there are a few pending. It is irritating that we still store source code in linear text files wi

Re: [Sugar-devel] [IAEP] Sugar Digest 2012-09-18

2012-09-23 Thread Chris Leonard
On Sun, Sep 23, 2012 at 5:33 PM, Kevin Mark wrote: > They are both 'python' but most programmers are not going to be able to debug > the 2nd example easily. > -- > Making all the comments and the variable names in Spanish is not what I > expect for sugarlabs but mayb

Re: [Sugar-devel] [IAEP] Sugar Digest 2012-09-18

2012-09-23 Thread S. Daniel Francis
2012/9/23 James Cameron : > It is irritating that we still store source code in linear text files > without built-in internationalisation. > As you change these names, they become far less useful to programmers > who use that language. > > The development system would be more open and inclusive if

Re: [Sugar-devel] [IAEP] Sugar Digest 2012-09-18

2012-09-23 Thread James Cameron
On Sun, Sep 23, 2012 at 09:14:41PM -0300, S. Daniel Francis wrote: > 2012/9/23 James Cameron : > > It is irritating that we still store source code in linear text files > > without built-in internationalisation. > > As you change these names, they become far less useful to programmers > > who use t

Re: [Sugar-devel] [IAEP] Sugar Digest 2012-09-18

2012-09-23 Thread S. Daniel Francis
2012/9/23 James Cameron : > On Sun, Sep 23, 2012 at 09:14:41PM -0300, S. Daniel Francis wrote: >> 2012/9/23 James Cameron : >> > It is irritating that we still store source code in linear text files >> > without built-in internationalisation. >> > As you change these names, they become far less use

Re: [Sugar-devel] [IAEP] Sugar Digest 2012-09-18

2012-09-23 Thread Gonzalo Odiard
Now I know, I should stop reading this thread :) Gonzalo On Sun, Sep 23, 2012 at 8:40 PM, James Cameron wrote: > On Sun, Sep 23, 2012 at 07:53:35PM -0300, Gonzalo Odiard wrote: > > Paint activity was developed by a Brazilian team and a lot of variables > > had Portuguese names. > > Whit the ti

Re: [Sugar-devel] [IAEP] Sugar Digest 2012-09-18

2012-09-23 Thread Kevin Mark
--- On Sun, 9/23/12, S. Daniel Francis wrote: > From: S. Daniel Francis > Subject: Re: [Sugar-devel] [IAEP] Sugar Digest 2012-09-18 > To: "James Cameron" > Cc: sugar-devel@lists.sugarlabs.org > Date: Sunday, September 23, 2012, 9:24 PM > 2012/9/23 James Cameron : > > On Sun, Sep 23, 2012 at 0

Re: [Sugar-devel] [IAEP] Sugar Digest 2012-09-18

2012-09-23 Thread Flavio Danesse
El tema del idioma, tiene muchas aristas, (desde mi punto de vista), pero en lo que refiere específicamente a enseñar a programar a los niños y adolescentes, la cuestión está en que aprender un lenguaje de programación es en si, aprender otro idioma, lo cual ya de por si es difícil para cualquiera.

Re: [Sugar-devel] [IAEP] Sugar Digest 2012-09-18

2012-09-23 Thread Gonzalo Odiard
Flavio, Estoy de acuerdo que para enseñar programación, agregar la problemática de comprender otro idioma a la de comprender el lenguaje de programación en si, no tiene demasiado sentido. Lo que si creo que tiene sentido, y esto tu y yo lo hemos hablado varias veces, pero como has dado tu punto de

Re: [Sugar-devel] [IAEP] Sugar Digest 2012-09-18

2012-09-23 Thread Kevin Mark
Hola Flavio, I think you gave many excellent  reasons for using Spanish, which is what i was saying. So I agree. I was recalling something about the OLPC project in Haiti.  They have 2 'officlal' languages: Kreyol and French. 99% of the country learns Kreyol but the upper class/government know F

Re: [Sugar-devel] [IAEP] Sugar Digest 2012-09-18

2012-09-23 Thread Kevin Mark
--- On Mon, 9/24/12, Gonzalo Odiard wrote: From: Gonzalo Odiard Subject: Re: [Sugar-devel] [IAEP] Sugar Digest 2012-09-18 To: "Flavio Danesse" Cc: "Kevin Mark" , sugar-devel@lists.sugarlabs.org, "James Cameron" , "S. Daniel Francis" Date: Monday, September 24, 2012, 1:08 AM Flavio,Estoy de

Re: [Sugar-devel] [IAEP] Sugar Digest 2012-09-18

2012-09-23 Thread James Cameron
On Mon, Sep 24, 2012 at 02:08:03AM -0300, Gonzalo Odiard wrote: > I agree with you when you say, to teach programming, add the need to > learn a foreign language to the fact of learning the programming > language, does not have too much sense. I couldn't read what Flavio said, but I agree that hav

Re: [Sugar-devel] [IAEP] Sugar Digest 2012-09-18

2012-09-23 Thread Alan Jhonn Aguiar Schwyn
> Date: Mon, 24 Sep 2012 15:40:13 +1000 > From: qu...@laptop.org > To: sugar-devel@lists.sugarlabs.org > Subject: Re: [Sugar-devel] [IAEP] Sugar Digest 2012-09-18 > > On Mon, Sep 24, 2012 at 02:08:03AM -0300, Gonzalo Odiard wrote: > > I agree with you when you say, to teach programming, add the ne