Thanks for the advice, Samuel. Do you have any suggestions on how to approach the file systems lesson, because I think that's a great place to go after this activity. Keep in mind that this is for 4th and 5th graders.
--Chris Lindgren ________________________________________ From: Samuel Klein [meta...@gmail.com] Sent: Wednesday, July 20, 2011 6:08 PM To: Christopher Lindgren Cc: iaep@lists.sugarlabs.org Subject: Re: [IAEP] Alternative 'favorites view' as an intro to programming Editing favoritesview.py from the terminal can be fun if you're also first teaching them about what a filesystem is, and where files are on the system. If you're trying to hide that complexity from them, this can be a bit too magical (and yes, typo prone) SJ On Wed, Jul 20, 2011 at 5:54 PM, Christopher Lindgren <chris.lindg...@my.ndsu.edu> wrote: > Hi, everyone, > > This is my first time emailing this list, but I've been reading for awhile > now. I was wondering if I could request some help with an idea that I was > thinking about doing with my SoaS project. > > I want to provide an engaging mini-lesson introducing the architecture of > Sugar (python) to 4th and 5th graders. To do so, I thought that the > favorites view modification would be a fun way to show them how there is > code underneath this GUI, and you can change the code to change the WYSIWYG. > > Anyways, I am wondering how to go about this, using the latest mirabelle > soas image? I have seen this wiki page: > (http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Hacking_Sugar#Emulation_Images), but I do not > know how to view this source file. I only know how to do the "View Source" > for the activities in Sugar. > > Any help will be greatly appreciated! > > Best, > > Chris Lindgren | fargoxo.wordpress.com > _______________________________________________ > IAEP -- It's An Education Project (not a laptop project!) > IAEP@lists.sugarlabs.org > http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/iaep > -- Samuel Klein identi.ca:sj w:user:sj +1 617 529 4266 _______________________________________________ IAEP -- It's An Education Project (not a laptop project!) IAEP@lists.sugarlabs.org http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/iaep