Modernize short and long description.
Jonas Smedegaard
8 years ago
17 | 17 | Recommends: ${cdbs:Recommends} |
18 | 18 | Sugests: ${cdbs:Suggests} |
19 | 19 | Provides: ${python:Provides} |
20 | Description: Sugar wrapper around the Squeak Etoys programming language | |
21 | Sugar is a desktop environment. It is conceived as a platform upon | |
22 | which children learn with Sugar Activities. The platform provides | |
23 | mechanisms for collaboration, reflection, and exploration. Sugar | |
24 | Activities cover a broad range of applications: browsing, drawing, | |
25 | composing, writing, programming, etc. | |
20 | Description: Etoys activity for Sugar Learning Platform | |
21 | Sugar Learning Platform promotes collaborative learning through Sugar | |
22 | Activities that encourage critical thinking, the heart of a quality | |
23 | education. Designed from the ground up especially for children, Sugar | |
24 | offers an alternative to traditional “office-desktop” software. | |
25 | . | |
26 | Learner applications in Sugar are called Activities. They are software | |
27 | packages that automatically save your work - producing specific | |
28 | instances of the Activity that can be resumed at a later time. Many | |
29 | Activities support learner collaboration, where multiple learners may | |
30 | be invited to join a collective Activity session. | |
26 | 31 | . |
27 | 32 | Squeak Etoys was inspired by LOGO, PARC-Smalltalk, Hypercard, and |
28 | 33 | starLOGO. It is a media-rich authoring environment with a simple, |