Re: [Sugar-devel] [karma] early draft of karma presentation

2009-08-27 Thread Felipe López Toledo
> > You could send strings for function blocks that can later be eval-ed. > But the eval itself might slow things down a lot. > yep, also it's not recommended ( http://javascript.crockford.com/code.html, look for "eval is evil") Some browsers serialise the JSON to > string and then re-eval it, oth

Re: [Sugar-devel] [karma] early draft of karma presentation

2009-08-26 Thread Lucian Branescu
You could send strings for function blocks that can later be eval-ed. But the eval itself might slow things down a lot. You can also send JSON objects between workers. Some browsers serialise the JSON to string and then re-eval it, others send the actual object. About shared data, try to stay away

Re: [Sugar-devel] [karma] early draft of karma presentation

2009-08-24 Thread Felipe López Toledo
Hi in my early post I talked about canvas vs SVG (slide #28) why not processingJS? (slide #28) here some technical stuff: --- Browser Optimization (slide #29) Karma lessons must run under the XO-1. Default browser: Browse ( based on Gecko ) Experimental: Surf ( based on webkit ) No problem with

Re: [Sugar-devel] [karma] early draft of karma presentation

2009-08-20 Thread Christoph Derndorfer
Hey guys, I basically agree with the points raised here so far and have a couple to add myself: slide #11: I would also mentioned that you had tried eToys/Squeak slide #24: I'm not sure we agreed on each lesson having to include a tutorial and an exercise. Of course this is a good goal but the que

Re: [Sugar-devel] [karma] early draft of karma presentation

2009-08-20 Thread Felipe López Toledo
Hi guys Joshua, Bryan has talked Christoph and me about you, thanks for writing :) * I would update the slide "Nobody Wants to Help", to something like, "Flash > is a poor longterm solution." I would drop the claim "Flash Devs don't like > to share." I would > - Despite the great work of the fr

Re: [Sugar-devel] [karma] early draft of karma presentation

2009-08-20 Thread Bryan Berry
On Thu, 2009-08-20 at 13:57 -0400, Joshua Gay wrote: > Bryan, > > This is looking good so far. Here are some initial thoughts, > > * It would be good to have a handout that puts all this info on a > single double side sheet of paper (a suggestion taken from Edward > Tufte's essay "The Cognitive