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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 Minwee · · Score: 4, Funny

    But can it teach them not to feed the trolls?

  4. 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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