[IAEP] Fwd: [sugar] Pippy VS Develop

[Greg Dekoenigsberg]

On Wed, 21 May 2008, C. Scott Ananian wrote:

> For what it's worth, I don't consider Pippy to be a "stop gap"
> solution.  I consider it to be an "incremental" solution.  The idea is
> to start with the easy problems and work towards the hard problems,
> maintaining a functional and accessable system to write activities at
> every step.  I have encouraged people interested in working on
> "Develop" at various points to start with Pippy and extend it, rather
> than trying to come up with something sparkley and brand new, since
> many of the previous sparkley efforts have not yielded anything usable
> in the end.  Perhaps Jameson's Develop will be the exception.
>
> That said, there are probably good reasons to split Pippy at some
> point so that we keep a version focused on young users first learning
> about programming, similar to the splits in the Tam Tam family of
> activities.  But I would prefer to see a unified Pippy grow up, so
> that the "complex" stuff is hidden for beginners but accessible as you
> have need.  The simple Pippy interface is for activities which fit in
> a single file -- and there are more activities than you'd think which
> fit this mold.  I'd love to see a mode added to allow Pippy to edit
> multiple files which grows naturally from the single-file edit mode.
> --scott

A big +1 to this whole approach.

--g