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It's a tradition. The first application of a programer when learning a new language will write; "Hello World!"
It's a tradition. The first application of a programer, when learning a new language, will write: "Hello World!"


But here "world" is too much! We are creating a "City"... Or, better our first exercicew will be to create a "Lot".
Ok... but here "world" is too much! We are creating a "City"... Or, better our first exercice will be to create a "Lot".


What is a "Lot"?
[[Image:Tut1-00.jpg|left ]]

[[Image:Tut1-00.jpg|left ]] In the figure you see a "City" having 12 "Lots". They are empty. At a real OLPcity each Lot has an activity that can be an educational game, a link to some article etc. etc.

A Lot is really a "normal" webpage created using <b>objects</b> of the "OLPCities Inventory". We are talking about objects in the OOPL sense. Somo of these objects will have a graphic representation that are "sprites".

You can use one of the sprites of our Inventory downloading from one of the pages:



Revision as of 22:22, 20 September 2006

It's a tradition. The first application of a programer, when learning a new language, will write: "Hello World!"

Ok... but here "world" is too much! We are creating a "City"... Or, better our first exercice will be to create a "Lot".

What is a "Lot"?

Tut1-00.jpg

In the figure you see a "City" having 12 "Lots". They are empty. At a real OLPcity each Lot has an activity that can be an educational game, a link to some article etc. etc.

A Lot is really a "normal" webpage created using objects of the "OLPCities Inventory". We are talking about objects in the OOPL sense. Somo of these objects will have a graphic representation that are "sprites".

You can use one of the sprites of our Inventory downloading from one of the pages: