OLPCities/Introduction

If you are thinking to begin programming web applications for OLPC you need to know some things.

The OLPC station has a browser that is a customized version of Firefox. But this doesn't means that, if you test some web application at your Firefox at Windows, by example, it will work at the station.

Our recomendation is that you install a "simulator". It's easy. If you work under Windows XP there are the tutorial: Using QEMU on Windows XP .

A good idea is to try that your application works in the OLPC station and in the Internet Explorer. Many kids in the world will not be included in the OLPC project and would use you application under Windows.

You can use what you will see at these tutorials serie for the creation of a "OLPCity" but you can have other ideas. The JavaScript libraries we will put available and explain how to use has the potential for many different crestions.

We will not explain in the main tutorials serie (this that you are reading now) the basics of programming or JavaScript concepts, but we will create links to these paralel subjects.

We need to alert you that JavaScript, like we will use it, is not a "safe" language. Everybody can see your code. But we think that, here, this is an advantage, because your code can help other people to learn develop something similar.