[Its.an.education.project] Another set of thoughts

[Arto Stimms]

Have anybody thought about porting Sugar to Squeak? Then it could
all run in a single runtime, turtles all the way down.

> Personally I think one of the most fundamental question that is still 
> waiting for an answer is: How are we going to teach 8-10 year old kids to 
> become sysadmins?
> 
> > Sugar is great and it is about to become a wonderful environment to do any 
> form of collaborative work. But it?s also one of the most complex and 
> challenging systems I have seen to date from a sysadmin perspective.
> 
> > Making it very, very hard to transition from the lovely Sugar-Gui world 
> too the harsh reality of Open Firmware boot prompts, Linux kernel 
> messages, SysV runtime levels, xorg.conf files, wifi standards and Avahi 
> multicasts announcements.
> 
> So you could end up with a system that is wonderful in teaching almost 
> everything except computers.  Because the only thing kids will learn about 
> computers is that sometimes they break, make you feel like a complete 
> idiot and that it's better not to change anything too avoid feeling like 
> being an idiot.
> 
> This ultimately leads to a situation where you either have to enable young 
> kids to understand pretty complex and high level system administration 
> stuff or need one dedicated computer geek per school you can offload any 
> computer related problem within a school (which would be the less ideal 
> solution). 
>
> 
> cu andreas