Talk:OLPC Human Interface Guidelines/The Laptop Experience/View Source

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First implementation : Ctrl-U, in Browse, to view html source. Not yet implemented to pull up python source as well; selecting among the different kinds of sources that can be viewed will be a challenge.

View Source is a great feature but "View Ideas" would be even better. The Source code for an activity only represents a subset of the ideas in an activity. One of the core tenets of constructionism is to expose kids to "Important Ideas" as Alan Kay says. We can't expect the average kid to discover calculus but we can expose them to the ideas of calculus through good documentation and excellent game play Bryan