[IAEP] [Sugar-devel] Sugar Digest 2012-09-18

[S. Daniel Francis]

2012/9/23 Agustin Zubiaga Sanchez <aguz at sugarlabs.org>:
> Hi, everybody.
> Like Daniel, I'm from Uruguay and I feel identified with the Walter message.
Hi Agustin!

> I'm fourteen years old, and I started using sugar when I was ten, when I
> receive my XO was the first time that I used linux and it liked me a lot.
>
> About the young programmers:
> I was a student of Flavio Danesse, and he taught me a lot but for obvious
> reasons I had to appeal the internet to found more information, where the
> most are in english, for me it wasn't a problem, because I have learned
> english..
>
> But the most of the children in Latin America hasn't this luck, and they
> find it difficult to program.

I'd say now there's a lot of documentation in Spanish, but I agree
with you in the language can be a barrier sometimes, specially for
write e-mails and similar things.
When Flavio said he doesn't understand why Spanish speakers write
source code in English, I replied I don't write code in English, I
write in Python, in C (not for Sugar) or in any programming language.

> About sugar and the teachers:
> Unfortunately, when I was in primary school, no teacher was concerned with
> explaining how to use my XO, and the "logical sugar activities", such as
> Turtle Art and Scratch, but luckily their interfaces are very intuitive.
> And when I started the high school was the same, no teacher was interested
> in the XO, except Mr. Flavio Danesse :)
> For this reason the most of my classmates, only use their XO to browse in
> Facebook and other social networks.

Here One Laptop Per Child is promoted as an implementation with the
aim of provide the children the possibility of access to the
information and internet. Of course, when it's also an education
project we expect an educational usage, I can say there is at least
one teacher per school interested in implement XO computers in its
classroom.

Cheers,
Daniel.