C\C++ & SDL

[Paul Fox]

mustafa wrote:
 > 
 > Hi
 > 
 > 
 > well children can learn all those stuff at school but programming
 > must be done on a computer and as technology affects our life more
 > more people must learn programming, searching, word processing,
 > etc.....
 > 
 > 
 > please tell me about those activity IDEs and how to compile with
 > them on OLPC and can a simple child easily get and use them

Etoys, TurtleArt, Scratch, and Pippy are the activities i was referring
to.  i'm sure you can find more information on them on your own.

 > 
 > and about physics if more people know how to program OLPC XOs
 > teachers (and maybe physics experts) can help program physics stuff

Physics, like most Sugar activities, is written in python.

 > and we can do both things just some people can improve physics
 > things while others increase support for programming languages

you seem to feel that increased support for programming education
on the XO is extremely important.  i heartily recommend that you
get involved, and help create what it is you think is needed.

 > 
 > 
 > BTW I love physics and i think it should be better (it's more
 > important than literature and unimportant stuff like that)

i confess, with comment like that i'm starting to suspect you of being
a troll.

paul

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 > > To: ahmed_nematallah at hotmail.com
 > > Subject: Re: C\C++ & SDL
 > > From: pgf at laptop.org
 > > CC: devel at lists.laptop.org
 > > Date: Mon, 8 Aug 2011 10:43:56 -0400
 > > 
 > > mustafa wrote:
 > >  > 
 > >  > a C++, python, C, Java, vala, Scala, (maybe C# too) ide with a
 > >  > couple of tuts for each language bundled with the OLPC XO will be
 > >  > great so kids can learn programming
 > > 
 > > contrary to what some believe, the goal of the XO, and the OLPC
 > > project overall, is not to teach kids programming.  the goal is to
 > > help kids learn _lots_ of things -- programming, and familiarity with
 > > computing, is one small part of an education that includes learning to
 > > read, to write, to do math, to understand geography, or astronomy, or
 > > biology, or..., or..., or...
 > > 
 > > the XO already support 4 (to my knowledge) programming environments as
 > > Activities, and as others have said, more languages (C++, java,
 > > whatever) are readily installable, if not under sugar.  i'd rather see
 > > Physics, for instance, become better suited as an instructional tool
 > > than support for more computer languages.
 > > 
 > > paul
 > > =---------------------
 > >  paul fox, pgf at laptop.org
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 paul fox, pgf at laptop.org