<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Sun, Aug 5, 2012 at 12:03 PM, Kartik Kumar <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:kartik.peri@gmail.com" target="_blank">kartik.peri@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
Hi All,<br><br>I was thinking of an Activity for Sugar using which children can write programs in C and C++ and execute them. </blockquote><div><br></div><div>Why? Why, poor kids?! :)</div><div><br></div><div>Jokes aside, I don't think is a good idea:</div>
<div>* C is more difficult to learn than python.</div><div>* In the images there are not gcc and make.</div><div>* Compiled c code is dependent of the platform, </div><div>and we do not have a good solution to multiplatform binaries in the activities.</div>
<div><br></div><div>Why you think, learning C can be good for kids?</div><div><br></div><div>Create a IDE with the simplicity needed by the sugar design is a challenge. </div><div>If you want help with a development tool to write python activities,</div>
<div>check <a href="http://git.sugarlabs.org/develop">http://git.sugarlabs.org/develop</a></div><div><br></div><div>Gonzalo</div><div><br></div><div> </div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
This is similar to Pippy activity but this activity will use GCC for compilation and execution of these programs created by children.<br>
<br>We can present them with such features:<br>1. Use pre-existing code snippets( from Journal)<br>2. Write custom code<br>3. Compilation and Execution<br><br>Please provide your inputs whether this seems useful with classroom perspective and is worth taking it further?<br>
<br><br>Kartik Perisetla<br><br>
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