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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. Yet another sign-in-required alphaworks article... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 3, Informative

    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?

  2. Re:Marketing to the inevitable by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 3, Informative

    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.

  3. Re:Food? Power? Water? by ajs318 · · Score: 2, Insightful

    OLPC is for people who already have food and water. Ting! Next, please.

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  4. Re:Food? Power? Water? by Minwee · · Score: 4, Funny

    But can it teach them not to feed the trolls?

  5. 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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  6. full article pdf by slack_prad · · Score: 5, Informative

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

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  7. 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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    1. Re:Can we get a OLPC simulator environment yet? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Informative

      yet?!?!!!

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

    2. Re:Can we get a OLPC simulator environment yet? by sleigher · · Score: 2, Informative

      A USB mouse and keyboard both work.

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  8. Audacity, gcc,etc.etc. by Bananatree3 · · Score: 2, Informative
    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.

  9. Maemo! by try_anything · · Score: 2, Insightful

    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!)