[IAEP] [sugar] Sugar on Edubuntu

[Yoshiki Ohshima]

At Thu, 6 Nov 2008 22:54:38 +1100,
Costello, Rob R wrote:
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> From outside this all looks as though it might suffer from being a little too pedantic in adhering to definitional terms
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> As an educator I know this software to be sweeter than most for teaching and learning of say, introductory programming..
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> The 'scratch' version is as sweet as anything for kids learning
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> It feels as free and open as can be, in terms of what you can see and change and modify
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> I'm not any smalltalk talk programmer, but i get how you can access the source code and make any change whatsoever at this level.. 
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> Still...take this as wild comment from a technically naïve educator who is biased towards what works for kids learning 

  You are right on.  Etoys is more open to users than most of other
systems.  It appears that knowing a particular way seems to hinder a
lot of people to consider other ways of doing stuff.  (Education, eh?)

-- Yoshiki