[sugar] project idea - any takers?

[Kim Hawtin]

Polychronis Ypodimatopoulos wrote:
> I admit this kind of (very) late, but here is a project idea that I 
> would love to mentor:
> 
> Depending on your coding skills you could write a small activity to 
> abstract the process of writing simple network applications that involve 
> various hardware parts of the laptop (sound card, camera, microphone, 
> network card). This activity would allow children to synthesize simple 
> network programs like "when my laptop hears a sound, send an email to my 
> friend X", "if you receive a message (packet) from this friend, take a 
> picture and send it to my other friend Y".... For example a child may 
> "write" small program using your activity to detect a sound and when it 
> does, it will take a picture and send it somewhere over email (a nifty 
> little monitoring system).
> 
> Children should be able to put together simple programs like that in "a 
> la etoys", by drag-n-drop of icons on screen and setting their 
> properties, making loops and so on.
> 
> Any takers?

We have done similar things with Scratch/Squeak...

I believe E-Toys might help you do that kind of thing more easily as the
framework is already there.

regards,

Kim
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Operating Systems, Services and Operations
Information Technology Services, The University of Adelaide
kim.hawtin at adelaide.edu.au