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Re:How kids in a low-income country use laptops: lessons fro... by icebraining on Thursday April 05, 2018 @09:10AM (#16764526)
The authors agree! Sugar (the environment of these laptops) comes with an easy-to-learn multimedia programming environment (Scratch), a simple Python IDE (Pippy), a graphical editor for acustic and electric circuits (TamTam SynthLab) and an authoring tool with programmable behaviours (EToys).

http://laptop.org/en/laptop/software/activities.shtml

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Re:How kids in a low-income country use laptops: lessons fro... by teaman2000 on Thursday April 05, 2018 @09:22AM (#16764621)
I got my start with Logo (which I think is a direct ancestor of Scratch) from MIT
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