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Sugar provides a simple yet powerful means of engaging young children in the world of learning that is opened up by computers and the Internet. Sugar promotes sharing, collaborative learning, and reflection. Through Sugar's clarity of design, children and their teachers use computers on their own terms; they are free to reshape, reinvent, and reapply both software and content into powerful learning activities.

About Sugar

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Sugar facilitates sharing and collaboration.

Children write documents, share books and pictures, or make music together with ease.

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There are no files, folders, or applications.

The basic unit of interaction is an activity; it includes an application, data, and a history of the interaction that can be used to resume the activity at any time.

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Everything is saved automatically.

Our goal is to make it almost impossible to lose any data.

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A Journal is used for accessing data.

The Journal is a diary of things that you make and actions you take; it is a place to reflect upon your work.

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Sugar is available on many GNU/Linux distributions.

Sugar is supported by and easily installed on Debian, Ubuntu, Gentoo, and Fedora.

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Sugar is free software.

Sugar is licensed under GPL; updates will always respect the freedom of its users.

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Documented by its users.

Our manual was written by members of the Sugar community. You can help!


Latest news

For more news about Sugar Labs, please see visit the Current Events page.

Try Sugar

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Try Sugar by running it on top of your existing system (Please see the Try Sugar page).

There are many ways to get Sugar: as a separate disk image on an existing machine; as a session on a Linux distribution; or as part of a complete hardware-software platform.

Some Sugar Activities

Sugar applications are called "Activities". Activities include an application as well as sharing and collaboration capabilities, a built-in interface to the Journal, and other features such as the clipboard.

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Journal

Object and activity browser

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Pippy

Python Programming language/environment

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Browse

Web browser based on Mozilla Firefox

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Etoys

Learning / programming / authoring environment

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Read

Book/PDF reader

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Turtle Art

Pseudo-Logo graphical programming language

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Write

Word processor

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Calculate

Basic calculator

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News Reader

News reader

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Measure

Oscilloscope and Data Logging

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Paint

Simple paint activity

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Distance

Measure distance between two laptops

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Record

Still, video, and audio capture

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Analyze

An activity version of the Sugar analyze tool

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Log

An activity version of the Sugar logging tool

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Terminal

An activity version of the Sugar terminal

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TamTam

Music composition and synthesis.

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Chat

Collaborative discussion

And more

many dozens more are available.

See also