Do you know there is great free software to download so children and 'big children' can start programming straight away? These programming environments can be downloaded to any PC or Mac and they are the same environments as children are using on the XOs! If you are not working from an XO, please follow these links to download the applications, for Scratch: http://scratch.mit.edu/pages/download
and for Squeak (know as Etoys on the XO) : http://www.squeak.org
Both these sites are full of information and very cool project ideas.
Etoys is already installed on the XOs, but you will need to install Scratch as the Scratch activity has only just been made available for the XOs and it is still being tested. To download Scratch to your XO, please go to the Actvities Page on the olpc wiki and follow the instructions.
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