The Undiscoverable

No matter how well we do in making Sugar and the XO discoverable, there are necessarily some things that even a born lever-puller and button-clicker will not find, or will not understand. This is a list of such issues. We can consider whether some of these can be improved, but we know that there is a limit. So we have to alert teachers to these issues, and assist them to alert the children.

Nothing is 100% discoverable or 100% undiscoverable. There are many features of Sugar and the XO that can be discovered, without their use cases being in any way obvious. The question, then, is how to recognize that a student is ready for a new usage of a known feature. In other cases, the children understand immediately what a function is for, as soon as they know it exists. In those cases, you don't have to show them more than once.

We should probably create a subpage for each of these issues, or point to an existing Wiki page that has the information.

XO

• Opening
• Position of antennae
• Rotate screen button
• Book reader mode, and page controls

Sugar UI

• Collaboration
• Hover menu unfolding
• Right click
• Use of Keep button
• View source?
• Copy and paste between activities? (No)
• How to quit an activity
• Change keyboard
• Change UI language
• Fonts

Journal

• Search
• Tag
• Resume session
• Install Activities
• Copy to USB stick

Activities

xo-get

• Script
• Activity

Terminal

• The entire command line repertoire
• Linux file system
• Standard IO
• Users and groups
• Permissions
• Regular expressions
• File globbing

Etoys

• It's a programming language.
• It's huge.
• The tutorials are excellent as far as they go, but they stop short.
• Projects? What are projects? How do I do that?
• Code viewer
• Program tiles
• Make tile

Pippy

• You can edit the programs
• You can add your own programs
• You can import libraries
• Python is a large programming language. How do I learn it?

Turtle Art

• Color space
• Programmable tiles
• tamyblock.py
• Portfolio tiles

Calculate

• Graphing

Measure

• Frequency and amplitude settings

Library

• I'm sorry, what is this for? Oh, wait, is this what the Journal was supposed to be? No, it only shows one entry for each activity. I can't list individual sessions or documents. So what is it for?

Browse

• Bookmarks

Jukebox

• Where is the music?

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