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Sugar is designed to encourage exploration and learning by children that have not been exposed to
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Sugar is designed to encourage children that have not been exposed
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Sugar has Activities rather that programs or applications. It is implemented on top of existing or modified operating systems and hardware. The Activities are accessed by the user through the Sugar platform. Many Activities, such as Browse, can take advantage of library collections. Some collections are included with the Sugar system; others may be installed from the Web or created locally.  
or indoctrinated in any exiting computing environment. It has
 
Activities rather that programs or applications. Sugar is
 
implemented on top of existing or modified operating systems
 
and hardware. The Activities are accessed by the user in Sugar.
 
One of the Activities, Browse, has lets the student examine
 
library collections. Some of these are included with the
 
Sugar system. Others may be installed from the web or they
 
can be created locally.  
 
  
 
The layers in a Sugar system are:
 
The layers in a Sugar system are:

Revision as of 19:08, 12 November 2008

Sugar Application Stack

Sugar is designed to encourage exploration and learning by children that have not been exposed to or indoctrinated into any existing computing environment.


Sugar has Activities rather that programs or applications. It is implemented on top of existing or modified operating systems and hardware. The Activities are accessed by the user through the Sugar platform. Many Activities, such as Browse, can take advantage of library collections. Some collections are included with the Sugar system; others may be installed from the Web or created locally.

The layers in a Sugar system are:

  • Library Collections (e.g., for the Browse Activity)
  • Sugar Activities
  • Sugar
  • OS
  • Hardware

Graphical view of the Sugar Application Stack:

Library collections: pre-installed and from the Web or locally created
Sugar Activities
Browse Read Write Record Etoys TurtleArt ...
Sugar
underlying operating system
Fedora Debian Ubuntu other Linux distributions LTSP Mac OSX MS Windows (QEMU) ...
underlying hardware platform
OLPC XO-1 ASUS EEE PC Intel Classmate ...