[Sugar-devel] "Openallure for Learning" in Sugar

[James Simmons]

Samy,

I'll try to have a look at this, but I won't be able to do it right
away.  Getting someone else's Python program to work in Sugar is a
little more difficult than anything I cover in the book, so I'm not
surprised you got stuck.  If it needs things that are not installed on
the XO by default that makes it harder too.

James Simmons


On Mon, Dec 27, 2010 at 1:51 PM, samy boutayeb <s.boutayeb at free.fr> wrote:
> Hi John,
>
> Le mardi 28 décembre 2010 à 08:12 +1300, John Graves a écrit :
>> Great news!
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>> Please let me know where your modified code is posted and how to direct others to it.
>>
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> I am sure that your application has a great potential, especially
> considering the huge user base of the Sugar user interface (around 1,5
> Mio. kids around the world), which happens to be developped in Python!
>
> This in mind, I tried to follow the instructions of the Manual "Make
> Your Own Sugar
> Activities!" ( http://en.flossmanuals.net/ActivitiesGuideSugar/Introduction ). Unfortunately, I am not a developper (just a translator and a former teacher) and my skills dont are sufficient enough to achieve valuable results. Maybe James Simmons, the author of this manual, could have an advice to share with us?
>
> Maybe someone among the Sugar developpers gravitating around the "Sugar
> Labs", http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/ will have the skills and the interest
> to make things happen.
>
> Kind regards,
>
> Samy
>
>
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>> John Graves
>> john.graves at aut.ac.nz
>> +64 21 213 8367 (mobile)
>> http://bit.ly/JohnGravesLinkedIn
>> >>> samy boutayeb <s.boutayeb at free.fr> 12/28/10 4:18 AM >>>
>> Hi,
>>
>> I discovered and tested in Sugar the application "Openallure for
>> Learning" ( http://code.google.com/p/open-allure-ds/ and
>> http://openallureds.ning.com/ ),
>> a "voice and vision enabled educational software" writen in Python.
>>
>> As a Python application, it's multiplatform (Linux, Mac, Win). I got it
>> running in Ubuntu (after adding a few (22) dependencies) and on a XO 1.5
>> running Sugar 0.90.1 (after adding python-config-obj and python-nltk).
>>
>> Thanks to its scriptable conception, it let's for example a teacher
>> design an interactive dialog (consisting a set of questions displayed on
>> screen and voice-synthetized per text-to-speech) and of answers made by
>> the student by pointing with the finger the line corresponding to the
>> selection, as captured by the camera.
>>
>> It's certainly worth to experiment with the interactivity offered by the
>> Openallure application and I am sure that there is room for designing
>> powerfull extensions.
>>
>> It worked here in Sugar (0.90) from the command line. I tried as well to
>> sugarize this activity (following the instructions in
>> http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Running_Linux_Applications_Under_Sugar ),
>> however, I didnt manage to have a better user experience, compared to
>> the native application.
>>
>> Kind regards,
>>
>> Samy
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