C\C++ & SDL

[mustafa nematallah]

its the First time i try to help with an Open source project so i need more help 






> 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 12:31:06 -0400
> 
> mustafa wrote:
>  > 
>  > Hi
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>  > 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.....
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>  > 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.
> 
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>  > 
>  > 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
 		 	   		  
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