One Laptop Per Child Application Development

An anonymous reader writes "This OLPC (One-Laptop-Per-Child) tutorial teaches you how to develop Python activities for the XO laptop. It covers the ins and outs of Sugar (the XO user interface, or UI) and the details behind activity development. You will also learn about Python programming, Sugar application program interfaces (APIs) for Python, and platform emulation with QEMU. Learn OLPC application development and help the worlds children."

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Yet another sign-in-required alphaworks article...

[Anonymous Coward]

Please editors, at least check if the main article requires you to sign-in. There must be other rubbish you can post that doesn't require bugmenot to be read in full.

Thanks,

Anonymous IBM-coward

PS. No, I'm not new here. Why do you ask?

Re:Marketing to the inevitable

[Anonymous Coward]

I'm using a combination of Beginning Game Development with Python and Pygame, Pygame and the documents on the OLPC wiki site. For the record, Pygame is installed on the XO by default and actually has a few added things like the ability to access the built in camera and mesh network.

full article pdf

[slack_prad]

https://www6.software.ibm.com/developerworks/education/l-sugarpy/l-sugarpy-pdf.pdf

Audacity, gcc,etc.etc.

[Bananatree3]

There are hundreds of packages you can download by simply typing

Yum Install ...

Audacity downloads and is practically turnkey. GCC works out of the chute. People are even getting Free Doom to run on it. The limit isn't the tech but the experimentation of packages.

Re:Can we get a OLPC simulator environment yet?

[Anonymous Coward]

yet?!?!!!

they have made virtual machine images available for quite a long time.

Re:Can we get a OLPC simulator environment yet?

[sleigher]

A USB mouse and keyboard both work.