[ydl-gen] PS3 and YDL for education

[Gary Frederick]

On 11/26/06, Owen Stampflee <ostampflee at terrasoftsolutions.com> wrote:
>
> > We are planning on using Linux on a PS3 to teach kids to program. We
> > have tried various things in the past including Linux on a PS2. I am
> > looking forward to installing on our PS3 and seeing what we can do.
> Sounds alot more fun that what most of us started programming with...
>
> > I hope I can get squeak (current smalltalk that has education support)
> > up and am planning on teaching some OpenGL on the PS3. I will be sad
> > if we can not get at the cool stuff on the CELL and other hardware but
> > am hopeful that the situation will be short lived.
> Smalltalk would be possible, but I've never tried it. OpenGL is going to
> be in software mode, so it'll be slow. We are including the
> Barcelona/IBM Cell SDK and libraries, but I highly doubt that someone
> without many years of programming skills will be able to wrap their head
> around it, it still makes my head spin.

:-)

OpenGL in software mode is probably ok for the kids starting out. Ask
me after I get running :-)

Gary
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