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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. Food? Power? Water? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    Can you write an app that makes food for them? or electricity? or running water?

  2. Re:Marketing to the inevitable by Threni · · Score: 0, Troll

    Yeah, cool 3D hardware on that thing. And any decent coder won't need a book to port reversi, zombie and lemonade.

  3. Re:Think of the punctuation by Daedone · · Score: -1, Troll

    Perhaps right after they look up how to spell moron... ?