[FM Discuss] I'd like to write a manual on Beginner's Guide To Creating Sugar Activities

[Walter Bender]

On Fri, Dec 18, 2009 at 1:47 PM, Jim Simmons <nicestep at gmail.com> wrote:
> I have begun working on a book on creating Sugar Activities for
> beginners.  I have written three Activities myself: Read Etexts, View
> Slides, and Get IA Books and in the process I had to figure out a lot
> of things for myself.  I'm hoping that my experience learning these
> things will make me a good guide for others.  If possible, I want this
> book to encourage children and others who may be new to programming to
> write their own Activities.  I plan to use code examples based on my
> own Activities to demonstrate how things are done.
>
> My tentative title would be:
>
> A Guide To Creating Sugar Activities For Beginners
>
> Thanks,
>
> James Simmons
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I have developed (and gradually refined) a simple sprite library I use
in a lot of my activities (Turtle Art, Card Sort, Slide Rule, Visual
Match, Erikos) that might make a nice chapter.

I also have code snippets for running Sugar activities from the shell
(outside of Sugar) and dealing with pre- and post-0.86 toolbars.
Regarding the latter, it may make sense to entice Aleksey or Wade to
contribute something about their abstraction layer that does an
end-run around the backward compatibility issues.

-walter

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Walter Bender
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