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.  <div><br></div><div>I also removed the OLPC "Hello World" tutorial since the Almanac is better.<br> <br></div><div>Cheers,</div><div>Wade</div><div><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, Feb 18, 2009 at 2:15 PM, Gary C Martin <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:gary@garycmartin.com">gary@garycmartin.com</a>></span> wrote:<br> <blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;">Hi Tom,<br> <br> Welcome, glad you could make it to the party! :-)<br> <div class="Ih2E3d"><br> On 18 Feb 2009, at 18:56, Tom Ziegmann wrote:<br> <br> > I'm a newbie developer to the Sugar / OLPC projects, and I was<br> > wondering where the best place to start would be? I'm primarily<br> > interested in developing activities for the Sugar, and as I<br> > understand it, those are coded in Python. I've been using Linux for<br> > awhile now, so I'm fairly confident there, and I've used the sugar-<br> > jhbuild directions and have successfuly built / setup the Sugar<br> > emulator on my Ubuntu 8.10 machine. Are there any tools that are<br> > recommended?<br> <br> </div>If your new to Python, this was always my favourite:<br> <br>        <a href="http://www.python.org/doc/2.5.1/tut/tut.html" target="_blank">http://www.python.org/doc/2.5.1/tut/tut.html</a><br> <br> For Activities, have a look at:<br> <div class="Ih2E3d"><br>        <a href="http://sugarlabs.org/go/ActivityTeam" target="_blank">http://sugarlabs.org/go/ActivityTeam</a><br> <br> </div>I particularly like the Sugar Almanac (great if you're the type that<br> likes to see simple code snippets on how to get things to work and see<br> what's possible). For me, I found the best way to get going was just<br> poking at the source of existing activities, and using pydoc (try<br> pydoc -p 8080 and using a web browser to navigate the docs).<br> <font color="#888888"><br> --Gary<br> </font><div class="Ih2E3d"><br> > Apologies if this information is already out there, and I'm just not<br> > seeing it. Any recommendations that you have would be greatly<br> > appreciated. I'm really looking forward to contributing to the<br> > Sugar / OLPC communities!<br> ><br> > Thanks,<br> ><br> > Tom Ziegmann<br> </div><div><div></div><div class="Wj3C7c">> _______________________________________________<br> > Sugar-devel mailing list<br> > <a href="mailto:Sugar-devel@lists.sugarlabs.org">Sugar-devel@lists.sugarlabs.org</a><br> > <a href="http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/sugar-devel" target="_blank">http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/sugar-devel</a><br> <br> _______________________________________________<br> Sugar-devel mailing list<br> <a href="mailto:Sugar-devel@lists.sugarlabs.org">Sugar-devel@lists.sugarlabs.org</a><br> <a href="http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/sugar-devel" target="_blank">http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/sugar-devel</a><br> </div></div></blockquote></div><br></div>