[Sugar-devel] XO emulator for Linux

[Edward Cherlin]

On Thu, Oct 8, 2009 at 5:57 AM, Walther Neuper <neuper at ist.tugraz.at> wrote:
> Hi Tomeu,
>
> thank you for your mail !
>
> You ask:
>> Can you give us some more details about what do you plan to develop
>> and how do you expect it to be deployed?
> Christoph Derndorfer established a project in Austria, where 25 kids of
> 8-9 years got XOs in 2008. And our Institute will contribute with a new
> activity requested by the teacher of these kids
> http://www.ist.tugraz.at/projects/isac/rp/reckonprimer.html
>
> Last summer semester 1 student built a prototype, and there are several
> students (a selection from those listening cc) who want to contribute to
> this activity during this winter semester.
> Time scheduled for this is not much more than 100h, thus it is too short
> to build up a complicated development environment, and too short for
> getting familiar with complicated things.

Note that you can build materials inside many Sugar Activities,
including Turtle Art, Etoys, Scratch, Pippy, the MIDI music apps, and
others, and you can build lesson plans around others, including
Measure and Record for scientific data acquisition and so on. I will
be happy to assist your students in exercising their imaginations in
these directions.

I am currently designing a gravity/relativity exhibit for a contest
organized by The Tech Museum of Innovation in San Jose. Mythbusters
just did a show on this very subject, testing whether a bullet fired
level from a gun will hit the ground at the same time as a bullet
dropped from the same height. This and the fact that the parallel
projection of a parabola is a parabola are both aspects of Galilean
relativity.

http://dsc.discovery.com/videos/mythbusters-simultaneous-bullet-release.html

> But we would like to have
> # our repository somewhere at http://git.sugarlabs.org/projects/
> # a test-driven development, having something like
>   /usr/share/activities/ReckonPrimer.activity
>   /usr/share/activities/ReckonPrimer.tests
> # ??? presently I have no more ideas what details to mention.
> Most students have Linux (Ubuntu etc) on their computers, some Windows.
>
> Any suggestions are welcome !
>
> Walther
>
> PS: About deployment: our present focus is the school teaching the 25
> kids mentioned. If our product will turn out interesting for others, we
> would be even more motivated !
>
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>
>
> Tomeu Vizoso wrote:
>> Hi Walther,
>>
>> On Thu, Oct 8, 2009 at 12:56, Walther Neuper <neuper at ist.tugraz.at> wrote:
>>
>>> Hi,
>>>
>>> following the instructions on
>>>
>>>       http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Emulating_the_XO/Quick_Start/Linux
>>>
>>> leads for Linux users to
>>>
>>>       olpc-redhat-stream-ship.2-devel_ext3.img.bz2
>>>
>>>            29-Feb-2008 19:49  206M
>>>
>>>    olpc-redhat-stream-ship.2-build-659-20080229_1949-devel_ext3.img.bz2 <http://xs-dev.laptop.org/cscott/olpc/streams/ship.2/latest/devel_ext3/olpc-redhat-stream-ship.2-build-659-20080229_1949-devel_ext3.img.bz2>
>>>                                                29-Feb-2008 19:49  206M
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> Christoph Derndorfer pointed out, that both are an outdated versions.
>>> Where can we get the actual version for Linux ?
>>> Or askel more generally: What kind of development environment would you
>>> recommend for Linux ?
>>>
>>
>> There are many versions of Sugar, and the differences matter depending
>> on what kind of development you want to do.
>>
>> Can you give us some more details about what do you plan to develop
>> and how do you expect it to be deployed?
>>
>> Thanks,
>>
>> Tomeu
>>
>>
>
>
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