[sugar] Education?

[Alan Kay]

Boxer has many excellent ideas in it. This paper is well worth 
reading (and it doesn't need the special pleading that mars the 
presentation of the ideas).

It's still a great start for thinking about many important features 
(and their integration) that children's authoring environments need today.

Cheers,

Alan

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At 05:52 AM 3/17/2007, Antoine van Gelder wrote:
>Ian Bicking wrote:
>>Antoine van Gelder wrote:
>>>Don Hopkins wrote:
>>>>Of course it might just be more powerful and efficient to 
>>>>re-implement something like Klik-and-Play from scratch in Python, 
>>>>as a plug-in visual scripting component, which can be used to 
>>>>script a HyperCard-like gui environment, and games built on top 
>>>>of it like SimCity and Robot Odyssey.
>>>
>>>
>>>Anyone know the current status of being able to turn an AST tree 
>>>emitted by the Python compiler module back into code after it has 
>>>been modified ?
>>I think Boxer is an interesting middleground between a full visual 
>>scripting environment, and something more visual than typical 
>>Python source code.  It's an old/dead project, and I never was able 
>>to actually get the code to run well (in OS 9 emulation), but the 
>>paper is interesting: http://www.soe.berkeley.edu/boxer/papers.html
>
>
>Thanks Ian - the 'ports' concept in particular is giving me a lot of 
>food for thought!
>
>  - antoine
>
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