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

[Wade Brainerd]

You're right Gary, the almanac is awesome.  I've updated the "Getting
Started" section of ActivityTeam/Resources to feature it, particularly now
that it's migrated.
I also removed the OLPC "Hello World" tutorial since the Almanac is better.

Cheers,
Wade

On Wed, Feb 18, 2009 at 2:15 PM, Gary C Martin <gary at garycmartin.com> wrote:

> 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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