Re: Updates and summer efforts

["Odile Bénassy" <obenassy@magic.fr>]

E O Fredrik Liljegren wrote:
> 
> > Question to Fredrik Liljegren :
> > could you tell us about your tool for children learning to read ?
> > is it actually ready to use ?
> > would it be a good idea to translate it into french ? to write doc ? ...
> 
> Nope...  The things I have written about reading-programs here and on
> my website is just about program ideas.  I was planning it before I
> began writing ExpMath, but never made any code.
> 
> If someone would like to start a project like that, a program for
> kids to first learn to read and write, and later to learn other
> languages, I'd really like to talk to her/him.  I've got a lot of
> ideas, some elaborated into actual plans for some future program and
> some just thoughts out of the educational theories I sympathise
> with..  I'd love to make that program, but I'd rather now concentrate
> on ExpMath, so that we get one working program soon rather than two
> empty shells.
>   However, if there is a common idea that the literacy program is
> more relevant to get the system to low grades than the math program,
> I could maybe put ExpMath on ice and start that instead...?

I am not pushing you on either ways, but I would really like to know
more about your ideas for the reading and writing program
I have an opportunity to talk about your project on a session for
teachers and programmers, in Grenoble (Alps, France) at the beginning of
July
Would you like me to do that and hopefully bring a couple of fresh
hackers to do the work ?

-- 
Odile Bénassy,
fonctionnaire, Orléans, France
"obenassy@magic.fr"
"http://perso.magic.fr/obenassy"