<html> <head> <meta content="text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1" http-equiv="Content-Type"> </head> <body bgcolor="#FFFFFF" text="#000000"> -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Tuesday 07 August 2012 01:36 AM, Gonzalo Odiard wrote: > > > On Sun, Aug 5, 2012 at 12:03 PM, Kartik Kumar <<a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="mailto:kartik.peri@gmail.com">kartik.peri@gmail.com</a> <a class="moz-txt-link-rfc2396E" href="mailto:kartik.peri@gmail.com"><mailto:kartik.peri@gmail.com></a>> 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? > 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 <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://git.sugarlabs.org/develop">http://git.sugarlabs.org/develop</a> > +1 or there are plenty of ideas around developing pippy (<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/User:Quozl">http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/User:Quozl</a>) as well :-) > 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 > > > _______________________________________________ > Sugar-devel mailing list > <a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="mailto:Sugar-devel@lists.sugarlabs.org">Sugar-devel@lists.sugarlabs.org</a> <a class="moz-txt-link-rfc2396E" href="mailto:Sugar-devel@lists.sugarlabs.org"><mailto:Sugar-devel@lists.sugarlabs.org></a> > <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/sugar-devel">http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/sugar-devel</a> > > > > > _______________________________________________ > Sugar-devel mailing list > <a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="mailto:Sugar-devel@lists.sugarlabs.org">Sugar-devel@lists.sugarlabs.org</a> > <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/sugar-devel">http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/sugar-devel</a> - -- Anish Mangal Sugar Labs -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.12 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://enigmail.mozdev.org/">http://enigmail.mozdev.org/</a> iQEcBAEBAgAGBQJQIUBzAAoJEBoxUdDHDZVpcfAH/2ZgHABl3BxLq5KXCPcBgb/t EOtA9zYe0jUsMUYiuCNokh48fc6sGUP06seCr/ROb2mSJnN+RrOxlQq196tvokWU LHss6uonkHU8MjtPQfdcAvosKWt0cepqOXQza3VrmNd+LsV+2cAkFLFOuZXidRug NggIi3j/DqBgUprZuCTh7YAzp94wKGBzpFDWNm3LPgaaZaROMy2A2lyNXZpeoQit 2ljfOCF4Jj6+xOpmT9ccXaHS3NikBq4aZa16WhvqV0EvaRssZrrFFTo9FIxsUNI3 haXbbGPLxFtUT9MHGU5KFlWcO8cnk/uUMLdaclYHsii5Ha+VTqMbXAS45az+4Sc= =eaLP -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- </body> </html>