[OLPC library] Curly Logo / OLPC

[Edward Cherlin]

On Nov 28, 2007 1:01 PM, Samuel Härgestam <samuel.hargestam at gmail.com> wrote:
> 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/ ).

Would you be willing to create a section for it on the OLPC
Publications page on the Wiki?

> 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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> >
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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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