[IAEP] The XOrobots in Montevideo

2011-05-20 Thread Caryl Bigenho
Hi All, I have some photos and a short video that I took of the robot project they showed us in Montevideo. The file size of the email with all of them attached is to large and many of your email servers are bouncing it back. So I will send the files individually in separate files. I hope

[IAEP] OLPC Contributors Program Mtg (on #olpc-meeting, 2PM Boston Time, Fri May 20)

2011-05-20 Thread Holt
Please join us in 30 MIN, voting for the latest OLPC/Sugar community projects over IRC Live Chat, to make the best project allocations mentoring relationships--starting right here: http://forum.laptop.org/chat Then type at bottom: /join #olpc-meeting AGENDA: * Fast Review of the 5 latest

Re: [IAEP] The XOrobots in Montevideo

2011-05-20 Thread Andres Aguirre
Caryl, is great that you liked the project butiá (the XO robot) If you want, you could upload the photos/videos to the facebook group of the project http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=147042805312846 I leave a video of the robot in the eduJAM here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Uv6P1pQ71IM

Re: [IAEP] copy files to/from server

2011-05-20 Thread Martin Langhoff
On Fri, May 20, 2011 at 2:12 AM, fors...@ozonline.com.au wrote: why not use Moodle or Sharepoint or Blackboard? Yeah - there's an easy-installation Moodle package. That's what I'd go with. m --  martin.langh...@gmail.com  mar...@laptop.org -- Software Architect - OLPC  - ask interesting

Re: [IAEP] Turtles All The Way Down

2011-05-20 Thread C. Scott Ananian
On Fri, May 20, 2011 at 11:09 AM, Alan Kay alan.n...@yahoo.com wrote: This is nice! Smalltalk actually got started by thinking about a way to make a child's Logo-like language with objects and pattern matching that could express its own operating system and environment. It is very tricky to

Re: [IAEP] Turtles All The Way Out

2011-05-20 Thread C. Scott Ananian
On Fri, May 20, 2011 at 2:28 PM, John Gilmore g...@toad.com wrote: separation.  This is why they never learn to modify the real programs that hide behind the fluffy interfaces on their real XO computers. I hope to show you a system where the real program *is* the fluffy interface (and vice

Re: [IAEP] Turtles All The Way Out

2011-05-20 Thread Walter Bender
On Fri, May 20, 2011 at 2:28 PM, John Gilmore g...@toad.com wrote: Recently, I finished my dissertation on mobile development directly from mobile devices. Something like this might've been very useful, although I did target experienced developers, not beginners. Mobile development would

Re: [IAEP] Turtles All The Way Out

2011-05-20 Thread mokurai
On Fri, May 20, 2011 3:11 pm, Walter Bender wrote: On Fri, May 20, 2011 at 2:28 PM, John Gilmore g...@toad.com wrote: Recently, I finished my dissertation on mobile development directly from mobile devices. Something like this might've been very useful, although I did target experienced

Re: [IAEP] Turtles All The Way Out

2011-05-20 Thread Alan Kay
Actually, I said I made up the term 'Object-oriented', and I did not have C++ in mind. Cheers, Alan From: moku...@earthtreasury.org moku...@earthtreasury.org To: Walter Bender walter.ben...@gmail.com Cc: Lucian Branescu lucian.brane...@gmail.com; IAEP

Re: [IAEP] Turtles All The Way Down

2011-05-20 Thread mokurai
On Fri, May 20, 2011 2:28 pm, C. Scott Ananian wrote: On Fri, May 20, 2011 at 11:09 AM, Alan Kay alan.n...@yahoo.com wrote: This is nice! Smalltalk actually got started by thinking about a way to make a child's Logo-like language with objects and pattern matching that could express its own

Re: [IAEP] Turtles All The Way Down

2011-05-20 Thread Gonzalo Odiard
The question is: does this really have educational value? Turtles all the way down is a great slogan, and a fine way to teach a graduate-level class on compiler technology, but I feel that the higher-level UI for tile-based program editing is the really useful thing for tablet computing. I'm a