[FRIAM] OLPC in Santa Fe

Marcus G. Daniels marcus at snoutfarm.com
Sun Dec 23 22:23:54 EST 2007


Nick Frost wrote:
> I find the OLPC not so easy to use, but to 
> their credit, they put a "Pippy" program (snake) icon in there, which is 
> a nice little interface to Python, which hopefully will be incentive for 
> some recipients to learn to program with Python.
>   
The TurtleArt activity (Logo) is also the kind of thing you wouldn't get 
with a commercial package.
It's got dockable blocks for programming primitives, and the shapes only 
fit together if the logic makes sense.  Fairly approachable..
 



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