Sugar Sucrose

Sugar interface and a set of demonstration activities

Sugar interface and a set of demonstration activities, commonly refered to by the sugar taxonomy, sucrose. X11:Sugar

Sugar is the core of the OLPC Human Interface.

Sugar is the core of the OLPC Human Interface. Its goal is to turn the Laptop into a fun, easy to use, social experience that promotes sharing and learning. Sugar reinvents how computers can be used for education. Sugar promotes sharing, collaborative learning, and reflection. Through Sugar's clarity of design, children and their teachers have the opportunity to use computation on their own terms; they are free to reshape, reinvent, and reapply both software and content into powerful learning activities. Sugar is a community project; it is based on GNU/Linux, a free and open-source operating system. http://download.opensuse.org/repositories/X11:/Sugar/openSUSE_13.2/ openSUSE:13.2

Test setup for 13.2

This is really just a snapshot of Factory, but we need it to adapt the tools to later test and accept requests to it. http://download.opensuse.org/distribution/13.2/repo/oss/ sugar-glucose

Core Sugar components

Virtual package of core Sugar components that follow the Sugarlabs six months release schedule. Sugar is a graphical user interface aimed at children which promotes sharing and collaborative learning. It was introduced on the One Laptop Per Child (OLPC) XO laptop but is useful on other devices as well. sugar-browse

Browse activity for Sugar

Browse is a Web browser built on Xulrunner and thus uses the same Gecko rendering engine as Firefox. sugar-calculate

Calculate activity for Sugar

The calculate activity provides a generic calculator. The interface provides the simplest functions directly and should therefore be easy to usen for the youngest children. However, it does support more complicated math and variables. sugar-chat

Instant messaging client for Sugar

The Chat activity will provide a simple interface for collaborative discussion, be it between two individuals or among a group as large as an entire classroom. While a lightweight and 'impermanent' chat will be provided in a layer above all activities and the various mesh levels, this activity devoted to textual communication will keep detailed records of the conversation within the journal and provide a means of searching through the conversation to locate important comments. sugar-etoys

Squeak Etoys activity for Sugar

Squeak Etoys was inspired by LOGO, PARC-Smalltalk, Hypercard, starLOGO and AgentSheets. It is a media-rich authoring environment with a simple, powerful scripted object model for many kinds of objects created by end-users that runs on many platforms, and it is free and open source. It includes 2D and 3D graphics, images, text, particles, presentations, web-pages, videos, sound and MIDI, etc. It includes the ability to share desktops with other Etoy users in real-time, so many forms of immersive mentoring and play can be done over the Internet. sugar-imageviewer

Image viewer activity for Sugar

The Image viewer activity for Sugar. sugar-jukebox

Audio and video player

The Audio and video player for Sugar. sugar-log-activity

Log activity for Sugar

Log is an activity for developers to examine the log files that are generated by system software and other activities. Logs can also be uploaded to servers to allow support staff to assist with troubleshooting. sugar-pippy

Python programming activity for Sugar

Teaches Python programming by providing access to Python code samples and a fully interactive Python interpreter. The user can type and execute simple Python expressions. For example, it would be possible for a user to write Python statements to calculate expressions, play sounds, or make simple text animation. The initial build ships with about twenty short Python examples covering various aspects of the language. sugar-read

Read activity

The read activity for Sugar sugar-pippy

Python programming activity for Sugar

Teaches Python programming by providing access to Python code samples and a fully interactive Python interpreter. The user can type and execute simple Python expressions. For example, it would be possible for a user to write Python statements to calculate expressions, play sounds, or make simple text animation. The initial build ships with about twenty short Python examples covering various aspects of the language. sugar-terminal

Terminal for Sugar

The terminal activity provides a vte-based terminal for the Sugar interface. sugar-turtleart

Pseudo-Logo graphical programming language for Sugar

Turtle Art is an activity with a Logo-inspired graphical "turtle" that draws colorful art based on Scratch-like snap-together visual programming elements. There are many restrictions compared to LOGO. The two allowed user-defined procedures can't have parameters. Only two numeric global variables are available, no lists or other data-structures. You can't make user defined functions which return a value. The conditionals and some of the functions only take constants or variables, not expressions. Limited screen real-estate makes building large programs unfeasible. sugar-write

Word processor for Sugar

The Write activity provides a word processor for the Sugar interface. sugar-help

Help and Dokumentation for Sugar

The Help activity provides a quick interface to help documentation on the XO. It currently launches a browser and displays html documents describing how to use the XO and the Sugar interface.