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One Laptop Per Child Application Development

Posted by timothy on from the be-the-chicken-hatch-the-egg dept.

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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  1. Re:Food? Power? Water? by Marcion · · Score: 2, Interesting

    yum install nut-nutrition

    NUT records what you eat and analyzes your meals for nutrient levels in terms of the "Daily Value" (DV). The
    program uses the free food composition database from the USDA. By experimenting, you can find the optimal level
    of the various nutrients and how to implement this with foods available to you.

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  2. Can we get a OLPC simulator environment yet? by compumike · · Score: 2, Interesting

    What would really spur development is if we could get a software simulation environment (ala VMware, Bochs, etc) so that developers who don't have the hardware could play with stuff. Also the keyboard on the actual OLPC is tiny, which adds an extra challenge for (adult) developers.

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