I'm taking some Vacation days and using the time to finish up "Make Your Own Sugar Activities!" I have just finished the chapter on making an Activity using PyGame, which took much less time than I thought it would. You can check it out here:
http://en.flossmanuals.net/bin/view/ActivitiesGuideSugar/WebHome I've also added an "About The Authors" chapter and have revised the Introduction to suggest that the book may someday contain guest chapters on advanced topics by other authors. I'm planning on making a chapter on supporting the new style toolbars, doing some proofreading and revisions, and then publishing that as the first complete edition of the book. At that point it should be good enough to be judged as a finished product. Even so, there are more topics that others could add: * Making an Activity that uses the Karma framework (or Gnash) * Making an Activity in languages other than Python * Sugarizing an existing program A couple of you have suggested other topics that you might be interested in writing. Those would of course be welcome too. As I've said in other emails I'd be interested in a cover image of an older child programming. Some of you work with children and might have suitable pictures that you could get the parent's permission to use. If necessary we could posterize the image with The GIMP to make the child less identifyable. Maybe some of you have other ideas for cover images. What I'm hoping for is an image that says making your own Sugar Activities can be fun and not too difficult for children, teachers, and other non-programmers. A picture of an older teacher programming might be good too. James Simmons _______________________________________________ IAEP -- It's An Education Project (not a laptop project!) [email protected] http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/iaep
