[IAEP] Alternative 'favorites view' as an intro to programming

[Christopher Lindgren]

This is great, Samuel. Thanks!

--Chris
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From: Samuel Klein [meta.sj at gmail.com]
Sent: Wednesday, July 20, 2011 6:53 PM
To: Christopher Lindgren
Cc: iaep at lists.sugarlabs.org
Subject: Re: [IAEP] Alternative 'favorites view' as an intro to programming

Use the browser and start at file:/// . you can visit /home/olpc/ to
see familiar things like the directory of activities, read the NEWS /
README files in activity folders to offer a sense of how things change
over time when they perform a software update.   TODO files (as in the
Speak activity) are also nice - they show that software is rarely
finished...

S.

On Wed, Jul 20, 2011 at 7:38 PM, Christopher Lindgren
<Chris.Lindgren at my.ndsu.edu> wrote:
> Thanks for the advice, Samuel. Do you have any suggestions on how to approach the file systems lesson, because I think that's a great place to go after this activity. Keep in mind that this is for 4th and 5th graders.
>
> --Chris Lindgren
> ________________________________________
> From: Samuel Klein [meta.sj at gmail.com]
> Sent: Wednesday, July 20, 2011 6:08 PM
> To: Christopher Lindgren
> Cc: iaep at lists.sugarlabs.org
> Subject: Re: [IAEP] Alternative 'favorites view' as an intro to programming
>
> Editing favoritesview.py from the terminal can be fun if you're also
> first teaching them about what a filesystem is, and where files are on
> the system.
>
> If you're trying to hide that complexity from them, this can be a bit
> too magical (and yes, typo prone)
>
> SJ
>
> On Wed, Jul 20, 2011 at 5:54 PM, Christopher Lindgren
> <Chris.Lindgren at my.ndsu.edu> wrote:
>> Hi, everyone,
>>
>> This is my first time emailing this list, but I've been reading for awhile
>> now. I was wondering if I could request some help with an idea that I was
>> thinking about doing with my SoaS project.
>>
>> I want to provide an engaging mini-lesson introducing the architecture of
>> Sugar (python) to 4th and 5th graders. To do so, I thought that the
>> favorites view modification would be a fun way to show them how there is
>> code underneath this GUI, and you can change the code to change the WYSIWYG.
>>
>> Anyways, I am wondering how to go about this, using the latest mirabelle
>> soas image? I have seen this wiki page:
>> (http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Hacking_Sugar#Emulation_Images), but I do not
>> know how to view this source file. I only know how to do the "View Source"
>> for the activities in Sugar.
>>
>> Any help will be greatly appreciated!
>>
>> Best,
>>
>> Chris Lindgren | fargoxo.wordpress.com
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