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

[Anne Gentle]

Wow, Jim, your proposed content sounds great. Would you consider
making those chapters within the Sugar book itself? There is a
Creating Activities chapter at
http://en.flossmanuals.net/Sugar/CreatingActivities, and I would
envision your experience and code examples would be a wonderful
additional chapter to the "Extending Sugar" section.

With this method, you can create your own book  as a remix, say
"Beginner's Guide to Creating Sugar Activities" or "A Guide To
Creating Sugar Activities For Beginners", but also your content
becomes part of the bigger Sugar book. Then your content gets greater
distribution and the Sugar book gets more content... I think that
helps all around.

Let me know what you think and I'll be happy to set up the chapter
idea I'm thinking of if that'll help you visualize it.

Walter, it'd be great to include that sprite library chapter as well,
as another chapter within "Extending Sugar."

Anne

On Fri, Dec 18, 2009 at 12:47 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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