[Marketing] Hacking with Sugar in Paraguay

[James Simmons]

Bernie,

I sincerely hope you were planning on using my book "Make Your Own
Sugar Activities!" as reference material.  It is found at
http://en.flossmanuals.net/ActivitiesGuideSugar/Introduction and
covers a great deal of the material they will need to learn, including
Git and setting up a development environment.

I'm knocking off a couple more chapters this week, and they should be
published soon.

James Simmons


> Date: Wed, 03 Mar 2010 19:35:58 -0300
> From: Bernie Innocenti <bernie at codewiz.org>
> Subject: [Marketing] Hacking with Sugar in Paraguay
> To: Stephen Jacobs <sxjics at rit.edu>, Remy DeCausemaker
>        <remyd at civx.us>,        Mark Battley <mbattley at ucc.on.ca>
> Cc: Sugar Labs Marketing <marketing at lists.sugarlabs.org>,       ASLO
>        <aslo at lists.sugarlabs.org>
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> Hello,
>
> yesterday I gave a presentation at the local university with the  the
> goal of motivating some students computer science to start hacking on
> Sugar and their professors to follow the lead of RIT and UCC:
>
>  http://codewiz.org/wiki/blog/2010/03
>
> I think there was a lot of enthusiasm and participation. Within two
> weeks, we'll meet again with a CS professor to define a possible track.
>
> It would be great if I could get to see a syllabus and any teaching
> materials used in the past. Are students creating new activities or
> enhancing existing ones? Do they also hack on core Sugar code?
>
> What are the most critical things to teach them before they can get
> started? I would expect jhbuild and git to be the hardest things to
> learn.
>
> --
>   // Bernie Innocenti - http://codewiz.org/
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