Threebean and Fornight in the caves of Sugar

Maybe it was because I had just read this article, but I felt like I was doing Archaeology. It turns out that although the Sugar desktop environment download was all in the package I downloaded, it was in a several different folders haphazardly mixed with all other python programs installed on my "box." Veteran Python coder Threebean taught me some great methods of searching through the folders in linux. For example:

All python installations are installed in the linux folder: /usr/lib/python2.7 /site-packages/

To case-insensitively search for a term in all the texts of a folder and in sub-directories enter the following command in the terminal: "grep -inr SEARCH_TERM * | less"

"grep" is a searching tool that searches for whatever you enter as SEARCH_TERM, -i makes it case insensitive, the * includes through all files in the current directory in the search, the -r recursively adds subdirectories to the search, the -n adds the line number of where the SEARCH_TERM shows up in the file, and lastly, we pipe the command into "less" which allows us to scroll through the results with the arrow keys.

After panning through the results, we looked into the sourcecode that contained words like "schoolserver" and "journal", finding many necessary files in folders like "telepathy" and "jarabe." Scanning the python code within those folders felt like trying to understand hieroglyphs on the walls of ancient temples. One can also use a "/" to search down in a vim, and a "?" to search upwards in vim. Threebean also showed me that most programs have accounts on the computer, and we logged into one to see if it had code that uploaded regularly to a schoolserver, but to no avail. It felt like trying to commune with the spirit of some ancient high priest, but we did the ritual incorrectly. He fears that the code we're looking for might never have been implemented, that the Ancient civilization was wiped out before they achieved spiritual resonance in their religion. I, however, still have hope, and will spend my next day deciphering these ancient texts to dive deeper into these mysteries.

P.S. apparently the Hackathon only counted as one day, but bear with me