[IAEP] NewTechHigh at Coppell and Etoys info needed

[forster at ozonline.com.au]

Caryl

I am interested in hearing more of your project, 

what would the math games look like?
What is the skill level of the programmers?
How was Scratch inadequate for their needs?

Two alternatives to consider are Turtle Art and Pippy/Pygame.

Turtle Art, like Scratch is very 'low entry', its also 'high ceiling' with its Python extensions. It is slow. Like Scratch, its lock together blocks are not so good for very large projects.

Pippy is 'high entry high ceiling'. The good thing about Pygame is that it looks after the complicated things like menus, windows, mouse and keyboard for you.

In both cases you could protect against accidental erasing by including them in the built in examples. That is, create a fork with your games included in the install bundle.

Another distribution method is a content bundle, which looks like an offline website.

Turtle Art math games could be built for Turtle Art on Gnome, Soas or XO. Pippy/Pygame can be programmed on any Python but it might need final tweaking on Soas or XO.

Tony