[IAEP] GPA notes Thursday 7-9-09

2009-07-09 Thread Anurag Goel
Here are some notes I took from today's session at GPA: We got there around 10 a.m to set up all the computers, the projector, and debug collaboration (still isn't working properly). The kids came in around 11:30 and as usual sat on the rug in the middle of the room. Walter told the kids the toda

Re: [IAEP] GPA notes Thursday 7-9-09

2009-07-09 Thread Walter Bender
One addendum: By default, Turtle Art stores numbers as real (floating point) and so the labels on the number line were printing with a decimal point and one trailing zero. This really confused the students, who don't know about decimal notation. I've made a change to the print and show functions t

Re: [IAEP] GPA notes Thursday 7-9-09

2009-07-09 Thread Caroline Meeks
We will be reburning the sticks on Monday to get a new version of Turtle Art on. Some of the core activities can't be updated via Activities.sugarlabs.org. This is a bug we should fix. Please let us know if there are any other things you think we should do or add to the stick. I know there is t

Re: [IAEP] GPA notes Thursday 7-9-09

2009-07-10 Thread Tomeu Vizoso
On Fri, Jul 10, 2009 at 03:29, Caroline Meeks wrote: > We will be reburning the sticks on Monday to get a new version of Turtle Art > on.  Some of the core activities can't be updated via > Activities.sugarlabs.org.  This is a bug we should fix. Do we have a ticket? It should mention which/some ac

Re: [IAEP] GPA notes Thursday 7-9-09

2009-07-10 Thread Walter Bender
I think the only activities that cannot be updated are the Fructose ones, which are installed in /usr/share/sugar/activities. If you remove them and restart Sugar, you can then install updates. I believe this is discussed in depth in one of the RPM-related threads and probably has a ticket associat