This is great, Samuel. Thanks! --Chris ________________________________________ From: Samuel Klein [meta...@gmail.com] Sent: Wednesday, July 20, 2011 6:53 PM To: Christopher Lindgren Cc: iaep@lists.sugarlabs.org Subject: Re: [IAEP] Alternative 'favorites view' as an intro to programming
Use the browser and start at file:/// . you can visit /home/olpc/ to see familiar things like the directory of activities, read the NEWS / README files in activity folders to offer a sense of how things change over time when they perform a software update. TODO files (as in the Speak activity) are also nice - they show that software is rarely finished... S. On Wed, Jul 20, 2011 at 7:38 PM, Christopher Lindgren <chris.lindg...@my.ndsu.edu> wrote: > 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 > -- 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