[FM Discuss] [support-gang] The Complete Idiot's Guide to Raising Your IQ, Solving All Deployments (and Creating GREAT Sugar Activities!)

[Jim Simmons]

Samuel,

The OLPC Austria Book is something I wish I had when I started.
Having said that, much of the advice they give for setting up your
development environment is dated.  It's a situation where there are
patrts of the book I disagree with (but probably would not have when
it was written) and other parts I have no experience with.  The book
could use updating and I'm not sure I'm the guy to do it.

I think, however, that I can write a decent text for younger
programmers.  As I have said before in other emails, my own struggles
to learn this stuff might make me a good teacher.

If my beginner's chapters became part of a larger text that would be
fine too.  I guess we can remix chapters as we like.

James Simmons

On Mon, Dec 21, 2009 at 4:04 PM, Samuel Klein <meta.sj at gmail.com> wrote:
> Jim,
>
> The lovely activity developer's handbook that you mention, which Christoph
> and others at OLPC Austria started on a while back, is a good text to work
> with.   (hey, it is the first hit for 'activity handbook' on google :)
> Your desire to write something simpler for newbies sounds similar to the
> interest that has been voiced in the past to update that handbook.
> (Was it not suggested as a possible focus for this year's booksprint?)
>
> http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/images/5/51/Activity_Handbook_200805_online.pdf
>