[Sugar-devel] Idea for a New Activity in Sugar: To code and run C, C++ programs

[Gonzalo Odiard]

On Sun, Aug 5, 2012 at 12:03 PM, Kartik Kumar <kartik.peri at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi All,
>
> I was thinking of an Activity for Sugar using which children can write
> programs in C and C++ and execute them.


Why? Why, poor kids?! :)

Jokes aside, I don't think is a good idea:
* C is more difficult to learn than python.
* In the images there are not gcc and make.
* Compiled c code is dependent of the platform,
and we do not have a good solution to multiplatform binaries in the
activities.

Why you think, learning C can be good for kids?

Create a IDE with the simplicity needed by the sugar design is a challenge.
If you want help with a development tool to write python activities,
check http://git.sugarlabs.org/develop

Gonzalo



> This is similar to Pippy activity but this activity will use GCC for
> compilation and execution of these programs created by children.
>
> We can present them with such features:
> 1. Use pre-existing code snippets( from Journal)
> 2. Write custom code
> 3. Compilation and Execution
>
> Please provide your inputs whether this seems useful with classroom
> perspective and is worth taking it further?
>
>
> Kartik Perisetla
>
>
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