On Mon, Jun 6, 2011 at 8:11 PM, John Gilmore g...@toad.com wrote:
Don Hopkins worked on a PostScript-based window system (HyperLook)
that would let you flip over an object on the screen to see behind
it a control panel with the guts of its implementation visible. You
could modify those, then
On Tue, June 7, 2011 6:06 pm, Dr. Gerald Ardito wrote:
Walter and Edward,
I am very interested in this conversation.
As you know, I have been working with 5th graders and XO Laptops for the
past 3 years in the middle school in which I teach.
For next year, I have designed a pilot program to
On Mon, June 6, 2011 8:11 pm, John Gilmore wrote:
I had to think about this some before having a useful response.
Excellent questions, and very timely.
I believe that Walter Bender wrote:
I cannot speak for every Sugar developer, but the approach I have tried
to take with Turtle Art is a bit
On Mon, Jun 6, 2011 at 8:11 PM, John Gilmore g...@toad.com wrote:
I had to think about this some before having a useful response.
Lots of good ideas here, so thank you for taking the time.
I cannot speak for every Sugar developer, but the approach I have tried
to
take with Turtle Art is
Walter and Edward,
I am very interested in this conversation.
As you know, I have been working with 5th graders and XO Laptops for the
past 3 years in the middle school in which I teach.
For next year, I have designed a pilot program to teach our 6th graders
about programming software and
On Tue, Jun 7, 2011 at 6:06 PM, Dr. Gerald Ardito
gerald.ard...@gmail.comwrote:
Walter and Edward,
I am very interested in this conversation.
As you know, I have been working with 5th graders and XO Laptops for the
past 3 years in the middle school in which I teach.
For next year, I have
Walter,
Thanks. And I'll check out Fred Martin's book.
If you are up for another visit to us in the Fall to do some more intensive
Turtle Art work, we'd love to have you.
Gerald
On Tue, Jun 7, 2011 at 6:13 PM, Walter Bender walter.ben...@gmail.comwrote:
On Tue, Jun 7, 2011 at 6:06 PM, Dr.
On Tue, Jun 7, 2011 at 6:15 PM, Dr. Gerald Ardito
gerald.ard...@gmail.comwrote:
Walter,
Thanks. And I'll check out Fred Martin's book.
If you are up for another visit to us in the Fall to do some more intensive
Turtle Art work, we'd love to have you.
Sounds like fun. Maybe early in the
Walter,
That would be great. Thanks.
Can you look and see when in September might work for you?
Gerald
On Tue, Jun 7, 2011 at 6:17 PM, Walter Bender walter.ben...@gmail.comwrote:
On Tue, Jun 7, 2011 at 6:15 PM, Dr. Gerald Ardito gerald.ard...@gmail.com
wrote:
Walter,
Thanks. And I'll
I had to think about this some before having a useful response.
I cannot speak for every Sugar developer, but the approach I have tried to
take with Turtle Art is a bit different than you are describing. The
block-based programming environment is not meant to be a substitute for real
tools;
On Fri, May 20, 2011 3:11 pm, Walter Bender wrote:
On Fri, May 20, 2011 at 2:28 PM, John Gilmore g...@toad.com wrote:
Recently, I finished my dissertation on mobile development
directly from mobile devices. Something like this might've been very
useful, although I did target experienced
Recently, I finished my dissertation on mobile development
directly from mobile devices. Something like this might've been very
useful, although I did target experienced developers, not beginners.
Mobile development would work great on mobile devices like the XO-1,
XO-1.5, XO-1.75, and
On Fri, May 20, 2011 at 2:28 PM, John Gilmore g...@toad.com wrote:
separation. This is why they never learn to modify the real programs
that hide behind the fluffy interfaces on their real XO computers.
I hope to show you a system where the real program *is* the fluffy
interface (and vice
On Fri, May 20, 2011 at 2:28 PM, John Gilmore g...@toad.com wrote:
Recently, I finished my dissertation on mobile development
directly from mobile devices. Something like this might've been very
useful, although I did target experienced developers, not beginners.
Mobile development would
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On Fri, May 20, 2011 3:11 pm, Walter Bender wrote:
On Fri, May 20, 2011 at 2:28 PM, John Gilmore g...@toad.com wrote
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