Sugar is a learning platform that reinvents how computers are used for education. Collaboration, reflection, and discovery are integrated directly into the user interface.
The Read activity allows the XO to act as a book reader. It has a simple interface, and will view many kinds of text and image based book-like materials (PDF, Epub, PS, CBZ, etc). It will have particular strengths in handheld mode, with extremely low power consumption and simple navigation controls.
Teaches Python programming by providing access to Python code samples and a fully interactive Python interpreter.
The user can type and execute simple Python expressions. For example, it would be possible for a user to write Python statements to calculate expressions, play sounds, or make simple text animation.
This is your basic "Lemonade Stand" style game for the XO Laptop, where the player manages a lemonade stand (or similar such store) and tries to make as much money as possible. The game is designed to incorporate money and fractional math skills to teach basic operations.
The School Server is one of the products of the OLPC project, designed to complement the XO. It is a Linux-based OS (a Fedora-based distribution) designed to be installed on generic low-end servers.
The Develop Activity is the "Activity for making Activities" for the One Laptop Per Child project.
In the spirit of Constructivism, OLPC needs a collaborative, intuitive and simple mechanism for fledgling hackers to write software in the same class the officially supplied activities. It needs to
... [More] be accessible for both educators who need implement a solid early computer science curriculum and young people who simply wish to play with their computer to make things for making's sake. [Less]
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