Tuesday 13 December 2016

Top 10 Sugar Activities


1.)  Physics

Physics activity is a great way to learn physics. You can create different types of machines, like some ball-firing machine etc. In physics activity, you can see inanimate objects live. Physics is 2D and not 3D. Many people think that it is one of the best activity because it is really fun to use, the UI is understandable, and is easy-to-use. 
(Images)File:Physics blender.png
From Sugar Labs wiki (https://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/File:Physics_blender.png)

1.)  Browse

Browse is one of the most used activity on Sugar. Browse activity is a simple web browser activity, normally used on Sugar for research purposes or to get newer activities from web. Browse has the most basic features and UI and so it is very easy to use.


3.) Calculate

Calculate is yet another very simple to use activity. This activity is just a basic calculator with some advanced trigonometric function and also with inverse trigonometric functions and more. It is much used by people. 


4.) Memorize

Memorize is one of the most used activity. It is rated 5 stars. It can help improving your memory by making remembering you basic operation or you can also select based on letters and sounds. You can also select size, options like 4x4, 5x5 and 6x6 are available. 


5.) Jukebox

Jukebox is also most used activity. It is just a simple music player as it name suggests. You can select your media files and then can play it. It has the simplest music player UI and is very very easy to use.


6.) Write

Write is used by many users. It is just a basic noting pad in which you can type out text, in different formats. You can also increase or decrease font size. You can select font family, select text to be bold, italic or underlined, or can choose color. You can also add table.  How can also select heading sizes. See this image :



7.) Image Viewer

Image viewer is just a simple, basic and easy-to-use image viewer. It's functions are simple, and this activity is widely used. You can zoom in, zoom out images and also switch to full screen mode.


8.) Pippy

Pippy is an activity for writing code in python language. It is fun to use as python is pretty much an easy language. You can spend hours writing different type of codes for fun or for something important. Once the code is written, you can run it. See screenshot.


9.) Words

Searching for meaning of a word...or translation? Use Words activity. Type out any word, like "Human" and you will get translations to the selected language and also it's meaning. You can also click on that mouth button, and it will speak out the word you wrote.



10.) Record


It is a simple yet easy-to-use recording program. It UI is pretty simple and understandable. You can click on the record icon (radial icon), it will start recording and press to stop button to stop recording. Then, you will be able to see your recording in that panel at the bottom.


Suggestion for a new activity

We really need a 3D model viewer in Sugar. The activity should be capable to create 3D models, and also ability to save them and open/view them. 

Thanks.


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