Sugar - Physics

27th July

Today I'm trying out the activity "Physics"

Physics allows you to draw shapes or create them using various tools. There is a play and stop button stopping and starting gravity. When played, all the shapes would fall down as though they were real life solid objects. When stopped all the shapes stay still as though they would in any drawing program.

There are also other tools used to delete shapes, rotate any shapes, keep them still in one place, connect shapes or move them as though they were attached to an elastic piece of string.

Many games can also be created using this activity.

Overall i think this activity is a great activity to use when wanting to have some fun playing with gravity and shapes. Although it does have a problem of not being able to save.

My impression on "sugar" Operating System

Sugar is an operating system from X.O with off-line and online activities. Sugar I used for a small laptop (X.O) which looks like a children’s laptop worth $180 dollars U.S. The Organizations in developing countries plans to give these laptops out for every child as the OLPC (One laptop per child) project.

My first impression on Sugar was that it was pretty hard to find all the icons/buttons because it some of the functions were hidden. Some of the icons are hard to understand, but when explained to i got the hang of things. The games were enjoyable and entertaining and easy to play because of many different things such as puzzles, speeches, animations, memory games, free cell, python program and many more.

Overall it was a good operating system with unique functions and i look foward to working with sugar in the future.