[PD] one laptop per child

Hans-Christoph Steiner hans at eds.org
Tue Sep 25 00:00:09 CEST 2007


On Sep 24, 2007, at 3:12 PM, Jamie Bullock wrote:

> On Tue, 2007-09-25 at 05:31 +0100, Andy Farnell wrote:
>>
>> OLP*C* - for a child there is no doubt, Pd is vastly easier
>> to understand and use than Csound.
>
> I had a play with one of the OLPC machines at GUADEC this year, and
> Csound is well buried beneath a polished GUI. I presume they chose it
> because of the all the built-in and instantly usable opcodes/ugens.

The OLPC music app I saw was this little sequencer.  I was appalled  
to see that it was really heavy on the western music system, with  
seemingly little option for anything else.  So much for the laptop  
for the world...  or hopefully I am wrong.

.hc

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