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* OLPCGames
* OLPCGames
** 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
** 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
** [[Game development HOWTO]] -- quick introduction to how to get started with [[PyGame]] on the OLPC (assumes some PyGame knowledge)
** [[Game development HOWTO]] -- quick introduction to how to get started with [[Pygame]] on the OLPC (assumes some Pygame knowledge)
* Red Hat Magazine Tutorials (Block Party)
* 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/2007/02/23/building-the-xo-introducing-sugar Introducing Sugar] Article describing how to use sugar-jhbuild to set up a development environment

Revision as of 05:27, 2 September 2007

These tutorials describe how to get started 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
  • Red Hat Magazine Tutorials (Block Party)
    • Introducing Sugar Article describing how to use sugar-jhbuild to set up a development environment
    • Anatomy of an Activity - A more detailed look at Sugar activities (Hello World style introduction to creating a new activity)
    • 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 (very involved).

Further Reading

  • API Reference Pointers to reference documentation for the platform.