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

[Wade Brainerd]

That tutorial is also part of the Getting Started section on
http://sugarlabs.org/go/ActivityTeam/Resources :)  (although I included 7,
8, 9 and 12 in my list)
Cheers,
Wade

On Wed, Feb 18, 2009 at 2:27 PM, Tomeu Vizoso <tomeu at sugarlabs.org> wrote:

> 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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