Tutorials

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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 Presentation (Openoffice presentation, Powerpoint) - Slides describing how to create a working bundle with the pygame framework
  • 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.