Education Team/Curriculum/Learning Programming

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OLPC XOs provide several programming languages:

• Turtle Art
• Python (Pippy activity)
• Smalltalk (Etoys activity)
• Perl (no Sugar activity)
• FORTH (Open Firmware, alternate boot)

Other programming languages that are not provided as activities can be installed using yum in Terminal, and run from the command line. These include

• UCBLogo
• J (a version of APL)
• clisp (Common LISP)
• gforth (GNU FORTH)

and many more, generally of less interest to children. There are also mathematics languages including programming capability, which are addressed elsewhere in this Wiki.

Teaching programming in early grades is a well-established practice. We need to create teacher training materials for all of the available languages, showing among other things how to transition from one to another. Then we need to integrate programming into every subject at every grade level.

Turtle Art

• activity
• Tutorials

Python

• Pippy activity
• Tony Forster's tutorial on Python in Turtle Art

Smalltalk

• Etoys activity
• Waveplace Etoys tutorials

Perl

• Perl on XOs

FORTH

Open Firmware and FORTH

UCBLogo

Activities#UCBLogo

J

J under GPL announcement

LISP

OLPC:LISP