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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.
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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. With Sugar, even the youngest learner will quickly become proficient in using the computer as a tool to engage in authentic problem-solving. Sugar promotes sharing, collaborative learning, and reflection, developing skills that help them in all aspects of life.
 
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==About Sugar==
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==Sugar features==
  
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Sugar facilitates sharing and collaboration.
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Write documents, share books and pictures, or make music together with ease.
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Sugar is supported by and [[DocumentationTeam/Try_Sugar|easily installed]] on [[Community/Distributions/Debian|Debian]], [[Community/Distributions/Ubuntu|Ubuntu]], [[Community/Distributions/Gentoo|Gentoo]], and [[Community/Distributions/Fedora|Fedora]].
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Sugar is supported by and [[DocumentationTeam/Try_Sugar|easily installed]] on [[Community/Distributions/Debian|Debian]], [[Community/Distributions/Ubuntu|Ubuntu]], [[Community/Distributions/Gentoo|Gentoo]], and [[Community/Distributions/Fedora|Fedora]]. Sugar runs on most computer hardware including netbooks.
 
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It is written in Python and easy to customize. Sugar is licensed under [http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl.html GPL]; updates will <em>always</em> respect the freedom of its users.
 
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Our [http://en.flossmanuals.net/Sugar manual] was written by members of the Sugar community. You can help!
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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. With Sugar, even the youngest learner will quickly become proficient in using the computer as a tool to engage in authentic problem-solving. Sugar promotes sharing, collaborative learning, and reflection, developing skills that help them in all aspects of life.

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Sugar features

Sugar facilitates sharing and collaboration.

Home sharing.png

Write documents, share books and pictures, or make music together with one mouse click.

There are no files, folders, or applications.

Home activities.png

Sugar has activities. Activities includes an application, data, and history. Activities can be resumed at any time.

Everything is saved automatically.

Home backup.png

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

A Journal is used for accessing data.

Home journal.png

The Journal is a diary of what you make and do; it is a place to reflect upon your work.

Sugar is available on many GNU/Linux distributions.

Linux2.png

Sugar is supported by and easily installed on Debian, Ubuntu, Gentoo, and Fedora. Sugar runs on most computer hardware including netbooks.

Sugar is free software.

Home opensource.png

It is written in Python and easy to customize. Sugar is licensed under GPL; updates will always respect the freedom of its users.

Sugar is documented by its users.

Home manual.png

Our manual was written by members of the Sugar community and teachers around the world are creating a wealth of pedagogical materials for Sugar. You can help!

Latest news

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

Try Sugar

Fedora.jpg Debian.jpg Ubuntu.jpg Gentoo-logo-small.jpg

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.

Activity-journal.png

Journal

Object and activity browser

Activity-pippy.png

Pippy

Python Programming language/environment

Activity-web.png

Browse

Web browser based on Mozilla Firefox

Activity-etoys.png

Etoys

Learning / programming / authoring environment

Activity-read.png

Read

Book/PDF reader

Activity-turtleart.png

Turtle Art

Pseudo-Logo graphical programming language

Activity-write.png

Write

Word processor

Activity-calculate.png

Calculate

Basic calculator

Activity-news.png

News Reader

News reader

Activity-measure.png

Measure

Oscilloscope and Data Logging

Activity-draw.png

Paint

Simple paint activity

Activity-acousticmeasure.png

Distance

Measure distance between two laptops

Activity-record.png

Record

Still, video, and audio capture

Activity-analyze.png

Analyze

An activity version of the Sugar analyze tool

Activity-log.png

Log

An activity version of the Sugar logging tool

Activity-terminal.png

Terminal

An activity version of the Sugar terminal

Activity-tamtamjam.png

TamTam

Music composition and synthesis.

Activity-chat.png

Chat

Collaborative discussion

And more

many dozens more are available.

See also

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