[Sugar-devel] More new and revised chapters of "Make Your Own Sugar Activities!" ready for review, feedback

Jim Simmons nicestep at gmail.com
Fri Feb 5 07:55:57 EST 2010


On Thu, Feb 4, 2010 at 9:20 AM, Jim Simmons <nicestep at gmail.com> wrote:
> James,
>
> I completely agree.  The book is no better than the code samples in
> it, and I consider the book a programming project as much as anything
> else.  I probably spent more time creating the code samples and
> testing them than I did writing the text.
>
> For anyone interested, the code samples are at this URL:
>
> http://git.sugarlabs.org/projects/myo-sugar-activities-examples
>
> Thanks,
>
> James Simmons
>
>
> On Wed, Feb 3, 2010 at 9:57 PM, James Cameron <quozl at laptop.org> wrote:
>> On Wed, Feb 03, 2010 at 10:35:06AM -0600, Jim Simmons wrote:
>>> [...]  In one case you get garbage and in the second you get code with
>>> no indents.  I have set up a Git repository for the sample code in the
>>> book and I will change all the references to copying and pasting code
>>> to "Open file name in the Git project you downloaded".
>>>
>>> I actually had to learn things about Activity Sharing to write the new
>>> chapter, so I am VERY concerned that what I think I learned is
>>> correct.  I don't want to lead anyone astray!
>>
>> Perhaps having your git repository code reviewed by Sugar developers
>> may assist ... with the comment that the purpose of the code is for
>> building more developers.
>>
>> --
>> James Cameron
>> http://quozl.linux.org.au/
>>
>


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