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These tutorials describe how to get started [[Developers|developing software]] for the OLPC XO environment.

== Sugar Activity Tutorials ==

* [[Sugar Activity Tutorial]] - This Hello World activity shows the basics of creating a python activity for Sugar using basic GTK operations
* Tuquito's [[Hello World!]] using GTK+Glade rather than hand-coded GTK
* OLPCGames Presentation ([http://ywwg.com/olpc/pygame_olpc_bundle.odp Openoffice presentation], [http://ywwg.com/olpc/pygame_olpc_bundle.ppt Powerpoint]) - Slides describing how to create a working bundle with the pygame framework
* Red Hat Magazine Tutorials (Block Party)
** [http://www.redhatmagazine.com/2007/02/23/building-the-xo-introducing-sugar Introducing Sugar] Article describing how to use sugar-jhbuild to set up a development environment
** [http://www.redhatmagazine.com/2007/03/26/building-the-xo-the-anatomy-of-an-activity/ Anatomy of an Activity] - A more detailed look at Sugar activities (Hello World style introduction to creating a new activity)
** [http://www.redhatmagazine.com/2007/04/05/building-the-xo-porting-a-pygtk-game-to-sugar-part-one/ Converting a PyGTK application to Sugar: Part 1] - Part 1 in a series of tutorials on how to port existing applications to Sugar.  This tutorial goes into the internals of the game BlockParty in preparation for converting it into a Sugar activity.
** [http://www.redhatmagazine.com/2007/04/26/building-the-xo-porting-a-pygtk-game-to-sugar-part-two/ Converting a PyGTK application to Sugar: Part 2] - Part 2 in a series of tutorials on how to port existing applications to Sugar.  This tutorial goes into converting the BlockParty game into a Sugar actvity (very involved).

== Further Reading ==

* [[API Reference]] Pointers to reference documentation for the platform.

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