Discussion with Alan Kay about Robot Odyssey
One of Alan Kay's favorite games is Robot Odyssey! I wrote to him: From: Don Hopkins Subject: Robot Odyssey One thing I've always wanted to do is a re-make of Robot Odyssey, with the full power of a...
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From: Don Hopkins Subject: Visual Programming The following two papers that I highly recommend cover a lot of interesting visual programming and simulation systems, which are well worth knowing about....
View ArticleIdeas about OLPC SimCity GUI, Turtle Graphics, and Cellular Automata
From: Don Hopkins SimCity in Python will be totally programmable in Python, so what should we program it to do? And how can we refactor it into general purpose, reusable components? Here is an outline...
View ArticleRedesigning the SimCity User Interface for the OLPC
Visual Programming Simplify the SimCity interface and make it easier for kids to use it with the game controller, in a way that will support multi player interaction. Collapse the separate concepts of...
View ArticleOLPC Visual Programming Languages for Education
Simon Forman's stuff about xerblin is fascinating, and I'm excited about where it's heading, and how we can incorporate ideas from eToys into Python! I like the idea of having visual meta-languages...
View ArticlePython Plug-In Technologies for Extending OLPC SimCity
The TurboGears web framework, and other Python web frameworks like wsgi, use Python eggs, easyinstall, setuptools, distutils, buildutils, paste, and other systems to package code and manage plug-ins...
View ArticleSimCity Rules
From: Alan Kay Subject: Just curious ... Has anyone tried to articulate the SimCity rules (e.g. in English sentences)? Cheers, Alan From: Don Hopkins Subject: Just curious ... I'm interested in...
View ArticleMicropolis (SimCity) source code available on Google Code
I've checked the Micropolis (SimCity) source code into the Micropolis Google Code Project. The subversion repository contains two different projects based on the original SimCity source code from...
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Bil Simser blogs about Micropolis source code and gui
Bil Simser has been writing some great stuff on his blog about building the Micropolis source code. And he's even been developing a user interface in Python around the MicropolisCore module. I have...
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SimCity for OLPC (One Laptop Per Child): Applying Papert's Ideas About...
Here are some ideas about applying Seymour Papert's philosophy of "Constructionist Education" to SimCity, by integrating it with the OLPC's "Sugar" user interface and Python-based scripting system....
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