Tutorials

Links to OLPC Tutorials

Here you will find links to tutorials on developing for the OLPC XO's

Sugar Activity Tutorials

• Sugar Activity Tutorial - This Hello World activity shows the basics of creating a python activity for Sugar
• Anatomy of an Activity - A more detailed look at Sugar activities
• 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.
• 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.
• Pygame OLPC Bundle presentation (Openoffice presentation, Powerpoint) - Slides describing how to create a working bundle with the pygame framework.

Further Reading

• PyGtk - The UI library used by Sugar
• D-Bus - The communications layer used by Sugar