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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."
OLPC is for people who already have food and water. Ting! Next, please.
Je fume. Tu fumes. Nous fûmes!
Sugar and Hildon are both small, simple desktops based on GTK, so hopefully it will turn out to be no great effort to adapt Hildon programs for Sugar and vice-versa. Let's face it, we do a much better job at developing applications that we use ourselves. How can I develop an application for children? I've mostly ignored them since I was one myself, and if conventional wisdom is correct, adults are doomed to underestimate them, even when we are forewarned of this danger. But I know what I like -- simple study tools and educational games are fun to play on public transit and other dead time, or just ostentatiously improving oneself in a big comfy chair at the local coffeehouse. If they can also be used by children on the OLPC, well, that's a hell of a warm fuzzy, and a good line to use on chicks. (Can it be... a massive convergence of the interests of narcissistic hipgeeks and developing-world children? Count me IN!)