[Etoys] Impressions on B1 Machine

[Bert Freudenberg]

On Dec 25, 2006, at 6:02 , Andrew Clunis wrote:

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> On Thu, Nov 30, 2006 at 12:07:08PM -0800, Yoshiki Ohshima wrote:
>>   Viewing source code was under discussion.  The implementation
>> langauge of Etoys, again, is different from the standard language on
>> OLPC, so it wouldn't serve as a prototype or mockup.  That said,  
>> Etoys
>> already have built-in development facility that expose all source  
>> code
>> in the system.  One may get some idea from there.  (Is somebody going
>> to write a Python development environment for children?)
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> Yup, I am. :)
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> http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Develop
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> Now, I think it is important for Develop and Etoys to share some  
> common
> idioms, but reconciling the Squeak development model with the
> Python/Sugar one is kind of tricky.  That, and I've not quite figured
> out Squeak yet...

We thought about saving an etoys project as an activity. The missing  
part is still that Sugar does not support adding activities at  
runtime, yet, as far as I can tell at least.

- Bert -