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

[Anish Mangal]

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On Tuesday 07 August 2012 01:36 AM, Gonzalo Odiard wrote:
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> On Sun, Aug 5, 2012 at 12:03 PM, Kartik Kumar <kartik.peri at gmail.com
<mailto:kartik.peri at gmail.com>> wrote:
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> Hi All,
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> I was thinking of an Activity for Sugar using which children can write
programs in C and C++ and execute them.
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> 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?
>

Not saying that learning C is particularly good (or better than python),
it is still the defacto programming language taught at nearly all
schools in India atleast (in higher secondary levels)

So, while learning C might not be a good idea (when compared with
python), it would be better than not learning at all ;-)

and the point of free s/w is scratching your itch ;-)

> 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
>

+1 or there are plenty of ideas around developing pippy
(http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/User:Quozl) as well :-)

> Gonzalo
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> This is similar to Pippy activity but this activity will use GCC for
compilation and execution of these programs created by children.
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> 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?
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> Kartik Perisetla
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Anish Mangal
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