Re: [sugar] Pippy and Calculate

2007-09-05 Thread Yoshiki Ohshima
Reinier, Firstly, I apologize if my first email sounded too harsh to you. (It definitely didn't mean to be personal.) Being the main Calculate developer, I don't agree on your opinion about Calculate. I think it deserves to be a separate activity. It's true that it was a little

Re: [sugar] Pippy and Calculate

2007-09-05 Thread Yoshiki Ohshima
Hello, Walter, Thank you for the comment. (1) Especially for young children who are just beginning to read and write, imposing Python and its syntax on them is to high of a hurdle for accessing a calculator; Yes. But, Pippy can pretend that it is not about Python at first. The user

Re: [sugar] Pippy and Calculate

2007-09-05 Thread Reinier Heeres
Yoshiki, Yoshiki Ohshima wrote: Reinier, Firstly, I apologize if my first email sounded too harsh to you. (It definitely didn't mean to be personal.) That's alright, I could have phrased it a little differently as well actually! I just think the two activities are suited for

Re: [sugar] Pippy and Calculate

2007-09-05 Thread linaccess
hi, On Wed, 05 Sep 2007 13:00:50 +0200 Reinier Heeres [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: ... I just think the two activities are suited for different things. ... yes, I agree. A calculator is not to learn python. Some time ago the calculator activity looks like real pocket calculator and I think

Re: [sugar] Pippy and Calculate

2007-09-05 Thread Julius B. Lucks
Hi All, This is just a thought, but for a while I have been thinking about providing hooks into python from existing activities. What if Calculate provided a button that hooked into Pippy - when the button is pressed, Pippy would pop up, showing the underlying python code that is