John Gilmore wrote: >>>> I prefer "the Sugar learning platform" >>>> > > And my laundress prefers "fabric revitalization consultant". > > Sugar isn't about learning. Sugar is a user interface. It draws > icons and decorations on the screen, starts and stops programs, and > lets you turn control knobs. The things Sugar competes with aren't > learning platforms, they're user interfaces, like Gnome or Hildon. >
At first, it sounds like your correct, but I think you're not. Gnome is a general-purpose desktop environment, hildon is gear towards mobile interfaces on small screen real estate, and Sugar is an environment with a focus on collaboration and abstraction of concepts such as "files" and "user accounts". As such, it could sustain a learning process better than other "general purpose" environments. Pol -- Polychronis Ypodimatopoulos Graduate student Viral Communications MIT Media Lab Tel: +1 (617) 459-6058 http://www.mit.edu/~ypod/ _______________________________________________ Sugar mailing list [email protected] http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/sugar
