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muggins · Joined: 20 Jan 2006 Posts: 6663 Location: lisbon

These are the latest example programs for littlewizard. Extract the attached archive to /, & they will be saved in /usr/share/littlewizard/examples directory. Then if you run littlewizard, and then open one of these files, then you can run it by clicking execute.

Lobster · Posted: Thu 02 Aug 2007, 11:15 Post subject:

Great News - I hope the kids in the cybercafe start using this.

If I was learning programming, I would start with this. Even has elements of Logos turtle graphics . . .

many thanks Smile

muggins · Joined: 20 Jan 2006 Posts: 6663 Location: lisbon

hi lobster,

do you know, (or anyone else that has dloaded this), if young children find it easy to use?

muggins · Joined: 20 Jan 2006 Posts: 6663 Location: lisbon

I've uploaded the latest release candidate of lwizard. This was compiled on puppy3, so it should run on pup3 versions without needing any other libraries. However when I tried running it on pup2.16, I just needed to add 2 extra libraries.

So anyone wishing to try on pup2xxx, just extract this attachment to /.

Pizzasgood · Posted: Tue 11 Dec 2007, 02:14 Post subject:

And people think C is confusing? The screenshots make my head spin. But maybe I'm just tired. I'll have to download it and give it a try over break. Might be fun.

cb88 · Joined: 28 Jan 2007 Posts: 1160 Location: USA

hmm competition for Scratch...

scratch looks easier to use....

Lobster · Posted: Wed 12 Dec 2007, 03:20 Post subject:

ecomoney · Posted: Wed 12 Dec 2007, 03:40 Post subject: Cybercafe

This is something that would be good to include in the next ecopup (the version of puppy used at the cybercafe), and for what it is the size is negligeable.

Maybe I was a strange kid, but I took to programming straight away when my mother (a teacher) brought home the school BBC Microcomputer to keep safe over the summer when I was 7.

muggins · Joined: 20 Jan 2006 Posts: 6663 Location: lisbon

I'll have a squizz at scratch. I did see an interesting java development environment, for kids, on freshmeat last week, but when I went back later on in the day to have another look, it had disappeared. And of course I'd neglected to write down the web address.

Yeah, what we need for kids is a language where, if you move the red block over here, this happens, whereas if you do this, ...etc. I think the closest I've seen to that sort of thing was squeak, but I'm dizzy like Pizzasgood, when I've tried Squeak.

muggins · Joined: 20 Jan 2006 Posts: 6663 Location: lisbon

Ecomoney,

have you looked at installing Leocad? It requires a working openGL installation, and the pieces required is quite large, (11M), but it would be good to have it installed on a couple of computers at your centre, rather than in an .iso.

http://leocad.org/

ecomoney · Posted: Thu 13 Dec 2007, 03:58 Post subject: Hi there

Hi muggins, our Rage II graphics cards dont allow for opengl at the moment, although its something we will bear in mind.

I have passed news of this to Slapshot, who is currently bringing out a new [url=www.edupup.org]edupup 2.0 beta

muggins · Joined: 20 Jan 2006 Posts: 6663 Location: lisbon

I've upgraded the 1.2.0rc2 release to stable 1.2.0.

muggins · Joined: 20 Jan 2006 Posts: 6663 Location: lisbon

Uploaded v1.2.1.