XO?

So I was messing around with the device we just got in class last week and I thought it is a pretty interesting device. Therefore I decided to write a post and talk about my experience over this XO laptop.

A XO laptop is a laptop device that is designed for younger generation students (4th graders), developed by On Laptop per Child(OLPC). It is a low-cost, connected laptop for the world's children education.The hardware of the laptop is actually not that powerful(which make sense, it's considered to be an educational device instead of a high-performance entertainment device).

The XO laptops run Fedora Linux with the Sugar Labs GUI - which is an interesting GUI that I've never seen before. I tried to play around with the device, it provides some basic PC functionality including typing, connecting to internet, browsing and etc. But the operating speed is really not that fast...

Our task on this device is to develop a educational game for 4th graders that runs on the XO laptop. The game will be most likely be coded with Python - which is a language I've not been touched in a while. By playing with the device, I'm already seeting a lot of possibilities that the device can have in order to run a educational game.

I will soon writing a blogpost about the smoke-test I did on this device.