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Sugar
is an attractive and colorful desktop environment created with an aim
of quality education for children. Sugar does not use desktop, folder
or window as its user interface objects. Instead, it uses a full
screen view which helps children to concentrate on one job at a time.
It is developed in Python language and runs on GNU/Linux. It is
released under GNU General Public License and is available in 25
languages. Most applications in Sugar are the forks of existing
applications in GNOME. It is available as USB-Bootable Linux
distribution and Live CDs.
Why Sugar is interesting?
Sugar
supports sharing and collaboration for users. It does not contain
applications like other desktop environments. Learner applications in
Sugar are called Activities. It includes activities like
Pippy(introductory environment to learn Python), Journals(object and
activity browsing), Distance(measure the distance between two
laptops) etc which are exclusively designed for easy use for kids. In
the Sugar Neighborhood view, children see their connected friends;
they can join each other’s activities.
Sugar
teaches you through three experiences:
Sharing,
which
shows the presence of others involved in the activity by sharing
ideas.
Reflecting,
where
Sugar uses journals to record each activity of the user which helps
in progress assessment.
Discovering,
where
users of different levels of skills join together in a single
platform and go deeper and deeper with no restrictions.
Sugar
provides children with the opportunity to explore, express and
experiment themselves.
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