He inspired Richard Stallman, who described him as a "very imaginative fellow", to use the term copyleft.[2] He coined Deep Crack as the name of the EFF DES cracker.[1] He ported the SimCity computer game to several versions of Unix and developed a multi player version of SimCity for X11, did much of the core programming of The Sims, and developed robot control and personality simulation software for Will Wright's Stupid Fun Club.
Hopkins also wrote demonstrations and programming examples of the ScriptX multimedia scripting language created by the Apple/IBM research spinoff Kaleida Labs, developed various OpenLaszlo applications and components, and is a hacker artist known for his artistic cellular automata.[4] He is also known for having written a chapter "The X-Windows Disaster" on X Window System in the book The UNIX-HATERS Handbook.
Hopkins, supported by John Gilmore, adapted SimCity for the OLPCXO-1 laptop.[5] The current version includes pie menus and is explained in depth in a video[6] released by Hopkins.
Since its primary objective is education, the OLPC project is looking not just for games, but for tools that enable kids to program their own games.[7] Hopkins programmed Micropolis to make it easy to extend in many interesting ways. He added functionality to let kids create new disasters and agents (like the monster, tornado, helicopter and train), and program them like in many of the other games on the XO. The goals of deeply integrating SimCity with OLPC's Sugar user interface are to focus on education and accessibility for younger kids, as well as motivating and enabling older kids to learn programming.[8]
The SimsEdit
The Sims is a simulation video game developed by Electronic Arts. The games are known for their very loose guidelines and no specific user goals. They allow the users to simply exist in the virtual world they create. Don Hopkins became involved in The Sims after he worked at Sun Microsystems.[1]The Sims were a theme in his work since then and he has contributed to much of the design and conceptual development of the game. He was hired to port The Sims to Unix. He implemented the usage of pie menus to the game so that users could efficiently carry out actions in the game world.
ReferencesEdit
^ abc"Resume for Donald Edward Hopkins". www.donhopkins.com. Retrieved Dec 10, 2022.
^Callahan, J.; Hopkins, D.; Weiser, M.; Shneiderman, B. (May 1, 1988). "An empirical comparison of pie vs. linear menus". Association for Computing Machinery. pp. 95–100. doi:10.1145/57167.57182. Retrieved Dec 10, 2022 – via ACM Digital Library.
^"Fun with Cellular Automata". www.art.net. Retrieved Dec 10, 2022.
^. Archived from the original on 2015-09-27. Retrieved 2007-11-12.
^"OLPC SimCity Demo". Retrieved Dec 10, 2022 – via www.youtube.com.
^"Game development - OLPC". wiki.laptop.org. Retrieved Dec 10, 2022.
^SimCity for OLPC: Applying Papert's Ideas About Constructionist Education and Teaching Kids to Program
External linksEdit
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hopkins, baseball, player, baseball, artist, programmer, specializing, human, computer, interaction, computer, graphics, alumnus, university, maryland, former, member, university, maryland, human, computer, interaction, inspired, richard, stallman, described, . For the baseball player see Don Hopkins baseball Don Hopkins is an artist and programmer specializing in human computer interaction and computer graphics He is an alumnus of the University of Maryland 1 and a former member of the University of Maryland Human Computer Interaction Lab He inspired Richard Stallman who described him as a very imaginative fellow to use the term copyleft 2 He coined Deep Crack as the name of the EFF DES cracker 1 He ported the SimCity computer game to several versions of Unix and developed a multi player version of SimCity for X11 did much of the core programming of The Sims and developed robot control and personality simulation software for Will Wright s Stupid Fun Club He developed and refined pie menus for many platforms and applications including window managers Emacs SimCity and The Sims and published a frequently cited paper about pie menus at CHI 88 with John Raymond Callahan Ben Shneiderman and Mark Weiser 3 He has published many free software and open source implementations of pie menus for X10 X11 NeWS Tcl tk ScriptX ActiveX JavaScript OpenLaszlo Python and OLPC and also proprietary implementations for The Sims and the Palm Pilot Hopkins also wrote demonstrations and programming examples of the ScriptX multimedia scripting language created by the Apple IBM research spinoff Kaleida Labs developed various OpenLaszlo applications and components and is a hacker artist known for his artistic cellular automata 4 He is also known for having written a chapter The X Windows Disaster on X Window System in the book The UNIX HATERS Handbook Contents 1 Micropolis 2 The Sims 3 References 4 External linksMicropolis EditMain article Micropolis video game Hopkins supported by John Gilmore adapted SimCity for the OLPC XO 1 laptop 5 The current version includes pie menus and is explained in depth in a video 6 released by Hopkins Since its primary objective is education the OLPC project is looking not just for games but for tools that enable kids to program their own games 7 Hopkins programmed Micropolis to make it easy to extend in many interesting ways He added functionality to let kids create new disasters and agents like the monster tornado helicopter and train and program them like in many of the other games on the XO The goals of deeply integrating SimCity with OLPC s Sugar user interface are to focus on education and accessibility for younger kids as well as motivating and enabling older kids to learn programming 8 The Sims EditThe Sims is a simulation video game developed by Electronic Arts The games are known for their very loose guidelines and no specific user goals They allow the users to simply exist in the virtual world they create Don Hopkins became involved in The Sims after he worked at Sun Microsystems 1 The Sims were a theme in his work since then and he has contributed to much of the design and conceptual development of the game He was hired to port The Sims to Unix He implemented the usage of pie menus to the game so that users could efficiently carry out actions in the game world References Edit a b c Resume for Donald Edward Hopkins www donhopkins com Retrieved Dec 10 2022 The GNU Project by Richard Stallman Callahan J Hopkins D Weiser M Shneiderman B May 1 1988 An empirical comparison of pie vs linear menus Association for Computing Machinery pp 95 100 doi 10 1145 57167 57182 Retrieved Dec 10 2022 via ACM Digital Library Fun with Cellular Automata www art net Retrieved Dec 10 2022 History and Future of OLPC SimCity Micropolis Archived from the original on 2015 09 27 Retrieved 2007 11 12 OLPC SimCity Demo Retrieved Dec 10 2022 via www youtube com Game development OLPC wiki laptop org Retrieved Dec 10 2022 SimCity for OLPC Applying Papert s Ideas About Constructionist Education and Teaching Kids to ProgramExternal links EditOfficial website nbsp Retrieved from https en wikipedia org w index php title Don Hopkins amp oldid 1154495619, wikipedia, wiki, book, books, library,
