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

[Samuel Klein]

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

Diffing your table of contents from the existing handbook's:

= 1 Introduction 3

= 2 What Is Sugar? 5
= 2.1 The Journal 6
- (has its own major section)
= 2.2 Collaboration 7
- (has its own major section)
= 2.3 Security 8
= 2.4 Summary 9
- Sugar UI

+ 3 What Is A Sugar Activity? 11

= 4 What Do I Need To Know To Write A Sugar Activity? 12
+ 4.1 Python 12
+ 4.2 PyGTK 13
+ 4.3 PyGame 13
- Input devices (has its own major section)

= 5 Setting Up a Development Environment 15
= 5.1 Linux or Emulation? 15
-  XO laptop
+ 5.2 Eric 17
+ 5.3 Inkscape 17
+ 5.4 The Sugar Environment 17
= 5.5 Should I Use sugar-jhbuild? 18

= 6 Creating Your First Activity 19
+ 6.1 Make A Standalone Python Program First 19
+ 6.2 Inherit From Activity 19
-  Package layout


SJ

On Mon, Dec 21, 2009 at 4:30 PM, Bastien <bastienguerry at googlemail.com>wrote:

> Jim Simmons <nicestep at gmail.com> writes:
>
> > I'm leaning towards the title "Making Sugar Activities" unless someone
> comes up
> > with something better.
>
> "Your First Sugar Activity"
> "Writing Sugar Activities"
> "Developing Sugar Activities"
> "Sugar for beginners"
>
> --
>  Bastien
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