[Sugar-devel] Newbie Developer - Where's the best place to start?

[Gary C Martin]

Hi Tom,

Welcome, glad you could make it to the party! :-)

On 18 Feb 2009, at 18:56, Tom Ziegmann wrote:

> I'm a newbie developer to the Sugar / OLPC projects, and I was  
> wondering where the best place to start would be? I'm primarily  
> interested in developing activities for the Sugar, and as I  
> understand it, those are coded in Python. I've been using Linux for  
> awhile now, so I'm fairly confident there, and I've used the sugar- 
> jhbuild directions and have successfuly built / setup the Sugar  
> emulator on my Ubuntu 8.10 machine. Are there any tools that are  
> recommended?

If your new to Python, this was always my favourite:

	http://www.python.org/doc/2.5.1/tut/tut.html

For Activities, have a look at:

	http://sugarlabs.org/go/ActivityTeam

I particularly like the Sugar Almanac (great if you're the type that  
likes to see simple code snippets on how to get things to work and see  
what's possible). For me, I found the best way to get going was just  
poking at the source of existing activities, and using pydoc (try  
pydoc -p 8080 and using a web browser to navigate the docs).

--Gary

> Apologies if this information is already out there, and I'm just not  
> seeing it. Any recommendations that you have would be greatly  
> appreciated. I'm really looking forward to contributing to the  
> Sugar / OLPC communities!
>
> Thanks,
>
> Tom Ziegmann
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