[OLPC library] Curly Logo / OLPC

[Samuel Härgestam]

Hello all,

This might be a good time to inform/remind potentially interested parties
about the Logo tutorial I wrote for OLPC about a year ago (
http://www.israelsson.org/~lethe/logobook/0.5.2/). At that time, I thought
the version of Logo to be shipped with OLPC would be Arnan (Roger)
Sipitakiat's version, but that doesn't seem very likely anymore. In any
case, I'd prefer to use a javascript interpreter, as it could be integrated
directly into the tutorial. I was getting worried I would have to write one
myself, but David's seems to fit the bill perfectly.

David, do you have a spec for the dialect of Logo you're using, so that we
could sync? Would you (or anyone else) be interested in trying to integrate
the tutorial more tightly with the interpreter, to make the learning curve
for these kids as smooth as possible? If so, please send me an email. I
would love to do it myself, but right now I'm extremely busy at work (it's a
startup) and have almost no spare time at all.

Best,
Samuel

On Nov 28, 2007 7:54 PM, Julius B. Lucks <julius at younglucks.com> wrote:

> Hi David,
> I am cc'ing the games and library lists to put you in contact with other
> OLPC developers. SJ Klein asks what license Curly Logo is available under,
> and if you have not chosen a license, would you consider a free license.
>
> You can sign up for the OLPC developers program to have access to a
> machine at http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Developers_program, although I am not
> sure of the availability at the moment - someone from the list would know
> more than I do on this point.
>
> The Unicode ability is very nice as one of the strong focuses for OLPC
> activities is internationalization.
>
> Does someone on the list have a checklist of what David can do to package
> Curly Logo for the XO?  Should it be made into an activity, or be a part of
> the library?  If the latter, how do we handle internationalization?
>
> If you decide to go through with this, OLPC can give you code hosting for
> the project as well.
>
> I hope this helps, and please email the list with further questions. (You
> may have to join the lists, which you can do at
> http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Mailing_lists)
>
> Cheers,
>
> Julius
>
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> On Nov 28, 2007, at 12:42 PM, David Jones wrote:
>
> I would be very interested indeed in pursuing Curly Logo on OLPC.  I was
> thinking of getting an OLPC for exactly this purpose.  Do you know how to
> go about this?  Random observation: Curly Logo uses Unicode throughout
> (thanks to JavaScript) so it's already possible to define your own
> procedures with names in Thai, Chinese, or whatever.  I sometimes define a
> triangle drawing routine called ∆.
>
> Just knowing that it works on OLPC is a very good result (Gecko rules!).
>
> Cheers,
>  drj
>
>
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