[Sugar-devel] GSoC: Proposal for "Create new activities"

[Muhammad Usman]

I think 'pip install jupyter' should do the trick. I think doing that we
might be able to bundle jupyter and then run it. Not sure if this is
recommended in sugar.

Thanks,
Muhammad Usman

On Sat, Mar 30, 2019 at 2:23 PM <sugar-devel-request at lists.sugarlabs.org>
wrote:

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> Date: Sat, 30 Mar 2019 15:01:18 +0800
> From: Tony Anderson <tony_anderson at usa.net>
> To: sugar-devel at lists.sugarlabs.org
> Subject: Re: [Sugar-devel] GSoC: Proposal for "Create new activities"
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> Good start.
>
> A reasonable way to start would be to install the server in gnome so
> that it works on the XO. This is going to be a bit tricky because Sugar
> on the XO is based on Fedora 18. One of the current modules required by
> pip is not supported by Fedora 18.
>
> In considering how I might proceed, I decided it would be easiest to
> install Jupyter on Ubuntu 18.04 and use the sucre install of Sugar to
> build and test the 'Jupyter-activity' wrapper, pushing off the XO
> dependency issues.
>
>
>
> Tony
>
>
> On 3/30/19 1:49 PM, Muhammad Usman wrote:
> > I have personally used jupyter for a long time, so I have a fair
> > amount of experience using it.
> >
> > As I can see, jupyter-notebook kind of requires the whole GSoC period,
> > therefore I would consider it as a separate project from the other and
> > write a different proposal for it.
> >
> > As for the design of the project, My understanding of going about
> > doing the project is:
> > - Install jupyter using pip. Install additional libraries such as
> > Latex to allow for the rendering of notebook as pdf and so on.
> > - Start with the jupyter server and modify the server to use journal,
> > removable devices along with using the file system.
> > - Make changes to frontend to display the notebook options appropriately.
> > - Display each language as a separate notebook option.
> > - Write a wrapper around the server controlling the starting of server
> > and the shutdown on exiting.
> > - Have examples and getting started tutorials.
> > - Lastly, have a detailed user documentation.
> >
> > Thanks,
> > Muhammad Usman
> >
> > On Sat, Mar 30, 2019 at 5:09 AM
> > <sugar-devel-request at lists.sugarlabs.org
> > <mailto:sugar-devel-request at lists.sugarlabs.org>> wrote:
> >
> >     Message: 3
> >     Date: Fri, 29 Mar 2019 16:38:47 +0800
> >     From: Tony Anderson <tony_anderson at usa.net
> >     <mailto:tony_anderson at usa.net>>
> >     To: sugar-devel at lists.sugarlabs.org
> >     <mailto:sugar-devel at lists.sugarlabs.org>
> >     Subject: Re: [Sugar-devel] GSoC: Proposal for "Create new activities"
> >     Message-ID: <a3f8d544-a6f6-35be-5fe1-6cc8e138dcd2 at usa.net
> >     <mailto:a3f8d544-a6f6-35be-5fe1-6cc8e138dcd2 at usa.net>>
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> >
> >     The Jupyter Notebook project is of particular interest to me.
> >
> >     Over the past several GSOC periods, developers have had a problem
> >     completing their projects within the allotted time. You are
> >     proposing to
> >     take on several projects, any one of which is a big load for one
> >     summer.
> >
> >     If you undertake the Jupyter Notebook project, I would hope that
> >     is your
> >     only task for the summer. Completing it in a usable form in the GSOC
> >     period would be a major, noteworthy accomplishment.
> >
> >     The Jupyter Notebook started life as ipython. The Jupyter
> >     implementation
> >     supports multiple programming languages (e.g. bash, python, web
> >     (javascript, html5, css), and many others. It can also be used to
> >     make
> >     interactive lessons on science and mathematics topics independent of
> >     programming).
> >
> >     The essence of the ipython server is that it accepts a url for a file
> >     (*.ipynb). It then processes this file displaying cells and running
> >     cells interactively based on the requirements of the notebook
> >     author and
> >     input from the user.
> >
> >     As an activity, (called for example, Jupyter-activity), it should
> >     resume
> >     .ipynb files in the Journal. The browser for this activity can be the
> >     Browse activity (testing to be sure that the WebKit browser in the
> >     Browse activity supports Jupyter). This is unlikely to be a
> >     show-stopper. If executed with start-new, it should enable the
> >     user to
> >     designate a notebook to run (among those in the Journal, Documents
> >     folder, or a mounted removable device). It should also enable a
> >     user to
> >     create a notebook.
> >
> >     The technology involved in this project is Jupyter. The team at
> >     Jupyter
> >     is friendly and helpful, in my experience. I doubt there will be an
> >     significant need to modify the Browse activity. One limitation that
> >     could be addressed en passant is that when Browse is resumed, it
> >     launches a new instance rather than opening a tab in a running copy.
> >     This is OK but seems primitive compared to other browsers.
> >
> >     There is a large library online of Jupyter notebooks with many
> >     tutorials. The first step in this project is to become familiar with
> >     these notebooks. Jupyter can be installed on Linux distributions via
> >     Anaconda - but this is overkill for the XO. It can also be
> >     installed by
> >     yum (apt for Ubuntu) but better by pip.
> >
> >     The storage available to the XO is extremely limited (XO has 1GB,
> >     other
> >     models have 4GB). This means that the Anaconda implementation which
> >     incorporates many additional valuable packages is probably too
> >     large for
> >     Sugar on an XO (still over 80% of the systems in the wild). Even
> >     so, the
> >     Pip install may need some optional capabilities such as Latex and
> >     MatLab.
> >
> >     One of the critical parts of an implementation frequently gets
> >     left to
> >     the end and then is not done - user documentation. Thanks to Gonzalo
> >     Odiard, Sugar has an excellent documentation capability based on
> >     Sphinx
> >     - see help.sugarlabs.org <http://help.sugarlabs.org>. The
> >     'Jupyter-activity' will need documentation
> >     that meets the needs of primary school students with limited computer
> >     experience and limited skills in Englsih. This could include a
> >     recommended library of Jupyter notebooks which can be used on the XO
> >     (esp. bash, python, and web langauges).
> >
> >     Tony
> >
> >     Tony
> >
> >     On 3/29/19 3:52 PM, James Cameron wrote:
> >     > Thanks, interesting.
> >     >
> >     > Technical comments; Jupyter Notebook Activity, you suggest
> stripping
> >     > down Browse activity.  You might instead presume Browse is present
> >     > and call it directly.  This is what the Wikipedia activity does.
> It
> >     > isn't what the Help activity does.
> >     >
> >     > Please also consider the design and user requirements input in this
> >     > closed issue; https://github.com/sugarlabs/GSoC/issues/13
> Especially
> >     > note Jupyter Lab; a richer environment than a browser alone.
> >     >
> >     > On Thu, Mar 28, 2019 at 06:22:03PM +0530, Muhammad Usman wrote:
> >     >> Hello all!
> >     >> I am Muhammad Usman. I am sharing my draft proposal for Create
> >     New Activities
> >     >> and Write activity in Sugarizer. Please do take a look at it
> >     and let me know
> >     >> your thoughts.
> >     >>
> >     [1]
> https://gist.github.com/usmanmuhd/ce60a3dd2c43fd5c5fe5154b5bc18750
> >     >>
> >     >> Regards,
> >     >> Muhammad Usman
> >     >>
> >     >> References:
> >     >>
> >     >> [1]
> >     https://gist.github.com/usmanmuhd/ce60a3dd2c43fd5c5fe5154b5bc18750
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