Know English, can learn programming more quickly.
If there could be a study of young programming language learners who used,.say,
spanish and those who learned at a similar age but used English, I'd love to
see that done and see if using Spanish first made for similar/greater/lesser
ability
cjlhomeaddr...@gmail.com said:
In my experience, programmers are typically able adept at thinking of
variables in the abstract, thus the preponderance of foo and 'bar when
conversationally describing programming with variables.
I think that's misleading.
I consider sensible names (variables
On 2012-09-24, at 01:40, James Cameron qu...@laptop.org wrote:
On Sun, Sep 23, 2012 at 07:53:35PM -0300, Gonzalo Odiard wrote:
Paint activity was developed by a Brazilian team and a lot of variables
had Portuguese names.
Whit the time, we changed a lot, but there are a few pending.
It is
On Mon, Sep 24, 2012 at 6:37 AM, Bert Freudenberg b...@freudenbergs.de wrote:
On 2012-09-24, at 01:40, James Cameron qu...@laptop.org wrote:
On Sun, Sep 23, 2012 at 07:53:35PM -0300, Gonzalo Odiard wrote:
Paint activity was developed by a Brazilian team and a lot of variables
had Portuguese
Hi,
An important concept is 'language of instruction'. For example, in Nepal
the language of instruction is Nepali; however, there are many native
languages other than Nepali.
In Haiti, the language of instruction is French. This is different than
requiring a course in French. All of the
When I wrote the chapter on collaboration in Make Your Own Sugar
Activities! I used a fairly complex example called Battalla Naval that was
written using Spanish. I had to run a comment or two through Babel Fish
but I was able to figure out what it did and why. I only speak English. I
regret
Hi,
With the latest sugar-toolkit release, sugar now no longer uses cjson,
which has long been unmaintained and buggy, and no longer has the
speed advantages that it used to (as other libraries have caught up).
Any activity that uses cjson should be ported to use the 'json' module
included in
Hi Tony,
On 24 Sep 2012, at 15:33, Tony Anderson tony_ander...@usa.net wrote:
Hi,
An important concept is 'language of instruction'. For example, in Nepal the
language of instruction is Nepali; however, there are many native languages
other than Nepali.
In Haiti, the language of
Browse manages a list of 10 recently closed tab to be able to re-open
them (the most recently closed is opened firstly) by pressing
Ctrl+Shift+T.
Signed-off-by: Manuel Kaufmann humi...@gmail.com
---
browser.py | 13 +
webactivity.py | 11 +--
2 files changed, 22
Hi Gonzalo,
as a temporary workaround you can use alsasink instead of
autoaudiosink. I will see if I can figure out why the auto sink doesnt
work.
On 21 September 2012 15:21, Gonzalo Odiard gonz...@laptop.org wrote:
A simple test-case http://dev.laptop.org/~gonzalo/simple_tts3.py
Works out of
Hi,
I think a comparison of the size of the Pootle files for 0.82 to 0.96
would make this clear. One obvious source is the pop-up menus which are
ubiquitous. Open Browse and look at the portal - it is all text.
Yours,
Tony
On 09/24/2012 11:55 AM, Gary Martin wrote:
Hi Tony,
On 24 Sep
The Bookmark toolbar is shown when the first bookmark is added by the
user.
Signed-off-by: Manuel Kaufmann humi...@gmail.com
---
webactivity.py | 1 -
1 file changed, 1 deletion(-)
diff --git a/webactivity.py b/webactivity.py
index 24f3b44..f9497db 100644
--- a/webactivity.py
+++
On Mon, Sep 24, 2012 at 1:37 PM, Tony Anderson tony_ander...@usa.net wrote:
Hi,
I think a comparison of the size of the Pootle files for 0.82 to 0.96 would
make this clear. One obvious source is the pop-up menus which are
ubiquitous. Open Browse and look at the portal - it is all text.
On Mon, Sep 24, 2012 at 1:37 PM, Tony Anderson tony_ander...@usa.net wrote:
Hi,
I think a comparison of the size of the Pootle files for 0.82 to 0.96 would
make this clear. One obvious source is the pop-up menus which are
ubiquitous. Open Browse and look at the portal - it is all text.
You
Hi Tony,
Thanks for the correction about language of instruction vs. language of initial
literacy.
-kev
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Gonzalo
On Mon, Sep 24, 2012 at 1:57 PM, Daniel Narvaez dwnarv...@gmail.com wrote:
Hi Gonzalo,
as a temporary workaround you can use alsasink instead of
autoaudiosink. I will see if I can figure out why the auto sink doesnt
work.
On 21 September 2012 15:21, Gonzalo Odiard
This was a bug in gst-plugins-good which has been fixed recently. I
updated gstreamer to 1.0.0 which fixes the crash for me.
On 24 September 2012 18:57, Daniel Narvaez dwnarv...@gmail.com wrote:
Hi Gonzalo,
as a temporary workaround you can use alsasink instead of
autoaudiosink. I will see if
To be clear, I updated sugar-build to use 1.0.0
On 24 September 2012 20:47, Daniel Narvaez dwnarv...@gmail.com wrote:
This was a bug in gst-plugins-good which has been fixed recently. I
updated gstreamer to 1.0.0 which fixes the crash for me.
On 24 September 2012 18:57, Daniel Narvaez
Memorize fixed in git, will be in the next version.
Gonzalo
On Mon, Sep 24, 2012 at 12:53 PM, Daniel Drake d...@laptop.org wrote:
Hi,
With the latest sugar-toolkit release, sugar now no longer uses cjson,
which has long been unmaintained and buggy, and no longer has the
speed advantages
The Title of the current page is no longer shown in the URL
entry. Now, it's only shown in the tab and the current URL is visible
all the time in the URL entry.
Signed-off-by: Manuel Kaufmann humi...@gmail.com
---
browser.py| 13 +
webtoolbar.py | 53
Hi,
The following code:
client = gconf.client_get_default()
role = client.get_string('/desktop/sugar/user/role')
raises an exception:
class 'glib.GError', GError('No D-BUS daemon running\n'
I am setting a gconf parameter: role to indicate whether a student is
'staff', or in grade 4, 5, or
- Use hide() instead of hide_all() which doesn't exist in pygobject.
- Remove the set_width_chars(100) of the explanation label. Forcing
the width to this arbitrary number seemed to work in gtk2/pygtk, but
now the top level window is being resized to fit that width.
Removing this line
Properly doing show() after packing the 'scrolled' and 'workspace'
containers in this section makes the text visible again.
Signed-off-by: Manuel Quiñones ma...@laptop.org
---
extensions/cpsection/network/view.py | 12 ++--
1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-)
diff --git
To do it, add the button to a ButtonBox with layout
Gtk.ButtonBoxStyle.CENTER.
Signed-off-by: Manuel Quiñones ma...@laptop.org
---
src/jarabe/desktop/activitieslist.py | 7 ++-
src/jarabe/journal/listview.py | 7 ++-
2 files changed, 12 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
diff --git
GtkStyleContext doesn't have .window class, GtkWindow should be used.
This is what a11y_base.css does in gnome-themes-standard.
Signed-off-by: Manuel Quiñones ma...@laptop.org
---
gtk3/theme/gtk-widgets.css.em | 2 +-
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
diff --git
There is a visible regression in the Frame background with this patch applied.
2012/9/25 Manuel Quiñones ma...@laptop.org:
GtkStyleContext doesn't have .window class, GtkWindow should be used.
This is what a11y_base.css does in gnome-themes-standard.
Signed-off-by: Manuel Quiñones
GtkStyleContext doesn't have .window class, GtkWindow should be used.
This is what a11y_base.css does in gnome-themes-standard. Also in
gnome-themes-standard they don't use the .background class, which
affects the window background [1], and set the background-color in
GtkWindow directly. This
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