Re: [Sugar-devel] [IAEP] 3 Questions From A New Sugar User Age 21

2012-01-26 Thread Edward Mokurai Cherlin
On Thu, January 26, 2012 5:07 pm, Sridhar Dhanapalan wrote: On 27 January 2012 08:55, Thomas C Gilliard satel...@bendbroadband.com wrote: On 01/26/2012 01:40 PM, Sridhar Dhanapalan wrote: On 25 January 2012 03:13, Thomas C Gilliardsatel...@bendbroadband.com wrote: On 01/24/2012 07:49 AM,

Re: [Sugar-devel] Can we be a little more friendly to Ubuntu users

2012-02-26 Thread Edward Mokurai Cherlin
On Sun, February 26, 2012 8:49 pm, Ma Xiaojun wrote: Hi, all My main reference is http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Community/Distributions/Ubuntu , I assume its accuracy. Please correct me when needed. The BIG picture I got: Install Sugar 0.90 is easy, but it is obsolete. Sugar is 0.94 is

[Sugar-devel] New activities

2012-06-28 Thread Edward Mokurai Cherlin
I am a member of two communities that have some interest in getting their Free Software into Sugar. One is the J programming language, a version of APL. The reason for bringing it into Sugar is that IBM ran a project in the 1970s to allow later Turing Award winner Ken Iverson to use it to teach

[Sugar-devel] Sugar Activity template for HTML5/Enyo

2012-08-25 Thread Edward Mokurai Cherlin
Excellent. I have been wanting a way to use HTML5 with various Sugar activities in the Replacing Textbooks program, both to write interactive tutorials on the activities, and to write subject-matter materials incorporating Sugar. Can you see how to do this? Can we adapt existing activities in

Re: [Sugar-devel] activity sandbox

2012-08-29 Thread Edward Mokurai Cherlin
On Tue, August 28, 2012 9:49 am, blekros sugar wrote: I'd like to use Eclipse with PyDev on Windows to try to build activities. There are Free Software Python IDEs such as Idle for Linux. Have you looked at them? Has the Sugar shell been ported to Windows (x86) or Android or iOS or as a

[Sugar-devel] [IAEP] Sugar Digest 2012-09-18

2012-09-19 Thread Edward Mokurai Cherlin
I would go further. Can we invite the children to give us their stories? They should be wikified, blogged, made the subject of articles in the geek and education press, and spread even more widely than that. Better still, can we invite the schools where this children are learning and sharing to

Re: [Sugar-devel] NPR story on OLPC in Peru

2012-10-14 Thread Edward Mokurai Cherlin
On Sun, October 14, 2012 11:07 am, Christoph Derndorfer wrote: On Sun, Oct 14, 2012 at 2:42 PM, Dr. Gerald Ardito gerald.ard...@gmail.comwrote: I wanted to share that we have faced the same criticisms in our school regarding the XOs. For the last four years, the teachers and students have

Re: [Sugar-devel] [Olpc-open] [IAEP] Healthcare - Potential Opportunity

2012-12-17 Thread Edward Mokurai Cherlin
For images of the eye under CC-BY-SA, https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Eye On Tue, Dec 18, 2012 at 12:47 AM, Alan Jhonn Aguiar Schwyn alan...@hotmail.com wrote: I'm not sure why, but I not like much Etoys (with all my respect to my namesake Alan Kay :-) I prefer a pure-python activity. For

Re: [Sugar-devel] [IAEP] Factorisation visualisation was Sugar Digest 2013-01-25

2013-01-27 Thread Edward Mokurai Cherlin
You can't do functions with arguments in Turtle Art, and so obviously you can't do full recursion with stacked and shadowed arguments directly in Turtle Art, but you can implement much of recursion in any of the usual ways using the push and pop stack blocks or other dodges. Have a look at the

Re: [Sugar-devel] HTML activities

2013-01-31 Thread Edward Mokurai Cherlin
On Wed, January 30, 2013 4:26 pm, lio...@olpc-france.org wrote: * What we are doing here is still heavily experimental. I don't think we know exactly where we are going yet, just trying to find out. I posted on the list so early because I think it's important to get feedback. Quite right.

Re: [Sugar-devel] [IAEP] video of XOs in the Amazon

2013-01-31 Thread Edward Mokurai Cherlin
I added a paragraph on the documentary and the YouTube excerpt, with references, to the English-language version of the page. Can somebody let the children know so that they can translate it for the Spanish-language page? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Palestina,_Peru I have wanted to suggest this

Re: [Sugar-devel] Sugar Framework for full HTML5 activity - subject proposal for GSoC

2013-03-22 Thread Edward Mokurai Cherlin
On Fri, March 22, 2013 10:29 am, James Simmons wrote: Lionel, I think this is definitely a great idea for GSoC. I like the work you've done in this area, but there was a fair amount of discussion on this list recently about different ways you could go about making an HTML 5 Activity and

Re: [Sugar-devel] [SoaS] Plans for SoaS v9

2013-03-22 Thread Edward Mokurai Cherlin
On Fri, March 22, 2013 12:19 pm, Peter Robinson wrote: On Fri, Mar 22, 2013 at 4:08 PM, Martin Abente martin.abente.lah...@gmail.com wrote: On Fri, Mar 22, 2013 at 10:37 AM, Peter Robinson pbrobin...@gmail.com wrote: On Fri, Mar 22, 2013 at 12:59 PM, Peter Robinson pbrobin...@gmail.com

[Sugar-devel] Computation for thinking with (was IAEP] Sugar Digest 2013-10-05)

2013-10-05 Thread Edward Mokurai Cherlin
On Oct. 5 Walter Bender wrote: In the early 1960s, while studying with Jean Piaget, Seymour Papert had the insight that computation was a thing to think with. Ken Iverson's Turing Award lecture was titled Notation as a Tool of Thought. http://www.jsoftware.com/papers/tot.htm He, of course,