Re: [Sugar-devel] Teaching typing and basic math on the XO (was: Re: [IAEP] How to Make Activity Designers Happy , Parts I and II)

2009-01-04 Thread Wade Brainerd
On Sat, Jan 3, 2009 at 1:49 AM, Edward Cherlin echer...@gmail.com wrote: I would like to get hold of Omar Khayyam Moore's Edison Talking Typewriter program and rewrite it in a modern programming language. It ran on an IBM 360 and taught three-year-olds to read and write on a Selectric

[Sugar-devel] Teaching typing and basic math on the XO (was: Re: [IAEP] How to Make Activity Designers Happy , Parts I and II)

2009-01-02 Thread Sascha Silbe
On Fri, Jan 02, 2009 at 12:10:09PM -0800, Bryan Berry wrote: The Typing Turtle will be immensely useful and immensely popular in Nepal. A typing tutor is one of the most frequently requested programs by the Nepali kids and teachers alike. Thanks alot to Wade for working on it. Have you tried

Re: [Sugar-devel] Teaching typing and basic math on the XO (was: Re: [IAEP] How to Make Activity Designers Happy , Parts I and II)

2009-01-02 Thread Wade Brainerd
If you have used TuxType, you will know that it's a simplistic typing *practice game* and in no way teaches the user how to type. That said, there are typing programs out there that could work. I just wanted to make a nice one for Sugar. -Wade On Fri, Jan 2, 2009 at 6:55 PM, Sascha Silbe

Re: [Sugar-devel] Teaching typing and basic math on the XO (was: Re: [IAEP] How to Make Activity Designers Happy , Parts I and II)

2009-01-02 Thread Edward Cherlin
On Fri, Jan 2, 2009 at 4:20 PM, Wade Brainerd wad...@gmail.com wrote: If you have used TuxType, you will know that it's a simplistic typing *practice game* and in no way teaches the user how to type. That said, there are typing programs out there that could work. I just wanted to make a nice