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

[Tomeu Vizoso]

Hi,

apart from the links already mentioned, I use to recommend people
without previous pygtk experience to go through the chapters 1-6 and
10 of the pygtk tutorial:
http://www.pygtk.org/pygtk2tutorial/index.html

HTH,

Tomeu

On Wed, Feb 18, 2009 at 20:21, Wade Brainerd <wadetb at gmail.com> wrote:
> 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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