Re: [IAEP] kids hacking sugar?

2010-08-10 Thread Edward Cherlin
Walter Bender has also created a Turtle Art/Python path using programmable blocks. I did a presentation on it once showing some simple functions for graphing, and adding math functions from Python to Turtle Art. You start by assigning a single function call to a block, then an expression, then a fe

Re: [IAEP] kids hacking sugar?

2010-08-10 Thread forster
Soren I hope a non-Sugar anecdote is OK. I had a year 6 (aprox. 11year old) student in my class programming in a TurtleArt/Etoys/Scratch like drag and drop programming language with top end extensibility through a scripting language. He found a strategy game with quite complex coding in the scri

Re: [IAEP] kids hacking sugar?

2010-08-10 Thread Christoph Derndorfer
Hi Soren, good to hear from you, how's the thesis coming along? Bernie Innocenti (in CC) who's currently working with the OLPC / Sugar project in Paraguay has held some successful classes and programming workshops with relatively young people. I don't remember the details but I'm sure he can tell

[IAEP] kids hacking sugar?

2010-08-10 Thread Søren Hougesen
I'm a curious outsider. Do kids actually hack sugar, change codes, do language translation, etc? Or is it just an option that they have with Sugar-FOSS? If so, where can I find some data on kids involved with sugar-hacking-activity? i.e. videos, community-discussions, documents, or your own descrip