[OLPC-Chicago] high level to low level

[Mel Chua]

Andy,

This is fantastic! Is the code open-source? (I'm guessing yes, but just 
making sure...) If it is, you might want to consider applying for 
[[Project hosting]] on a laptop.org machine and wrapping it into an .xo 
package so that kids can download and play with it. (Also, are there any 
docs or tutorials to start new hackers off, or would you like someone to 
write them?)

Might also make an interesting PyCon sprint for someone to work on, or a 
CS/EE class project in terms of porting this to the XO (and also 
encouraging people to play with the firmware, [[OFW]], which is written 
mostly in [[Forth]].)

Are there any teachers/professors/students who might be able to work on 
this project, or something like it, as a course assignment or some other 
for-credit thing this semester? Persuading schools to "count" OLPC 
projects towards graduation tends to help free up time to work on stuff. ;)

-Mel

Andrew Harrington wrote:
> Sheila,
> I am not, but I have a super-simple assembler simulator I use for intro 
> students.  It is written in Python, using the simple Zelle graphic 
> package my students used in class (so the graphics are pretty 
> primitive)  and the central engine would easily allow modification for 
> another instruction set, and it has a console based I/O that the 
> graphics wraps around.
> 
> People are welcomed to hack it if interested.
> http://www.cs.luc.edu/~anh/150s07/examples/pipFiles.zip
> 
> Andy
> 
> On Jan 27, 2008 8:41 AM, sheila miguez <shekay at pobox.com 
> <mailto:shekay at pobox.com>> wrote:
> 
>     I remember Mel mentioning a project to allow people to program a
>     low-level language via a high-level language. Is anyone here involved
>     in this?
> 
>     --
>     sheila
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