[Sugar-devel] Newbie Developer - Where's the best place to start?

2009-02-18 Thread Tom Ziegmann
Hello All, I'm a newbie developer to the Sugar / OLPC projects, and I was wondering where the best place to start would be? I'm primarily interested in developing activities for the Sugar, and as I understand it, those are coded in Python. I've been using Linux for awhile now, so I'm

Re: [Sugar-devel] Newbie Developer - Where's the best place to start?

2009-02-18 Thread Wade Brainerd
Hi Tom, Awesome! I would invite you to check out http://sugarlabs.org/go/ActivityTeam - this is the home page for the Sugar activity development effort. The Resources page (linked from the green bar at the top) contains a list of references that can help you get started. The TODO page contains

Re: [Sugar-devel] Newbie Developer - Where's the best place to start?

2009-02-18 Thread Walter Bender
http://sugarlabs.org/go/DevelopmentTeam/Almanac or just start modifying your favorite Sugar activity. -walter On Wed, Feb 18, 2009 at 1:56 PM, Tom Ziegmann tziegm...@msn.com wrote: Hello All, I'm a newbie developer to the Sugar / OLPC projects, and I was wondering where the best place to

Re: [Sugar-devel] Newbie Developer - Where's the best place to start?

2009-02-18 Thread Gary C Martin
Hi Tom, Welcome, glad you could make it to the party! :-) On 18 Feb 2009, at 18:56, Tom Ziegmann wrote: I'm a newbie developer to the Sugar / OLPC projects, and I was wondering where the best place to start would be? I'm primarily interested in developing activities for the Sugar, and as

Re: [Sugar-devel] Newbie Developer - Where's the best place to start?

2009-02-18 Thread Wade Brainerd
You're right Gary, the almanac is awesome. I've updated the Getting Started section of ActivityTeam/Resources to feature it, particularly now that it's migrated. I also removed the OLPC Hello World tutorial since the Almanac is better. Cheers, Wade On Wed, Feb 18, 2009 at 2:15 PM, Gary C Martin

Re: [Sugar-devel] Newbie Developer - Where's the best place to start?

2009-02-18 Thread Tomeu Vizoso
Hi, apart from the links already mentioned, I use to recommend people without previous pygtk experience to go through the chapters 1-6 and 10 of the pygtk tutorial: http://www.pygtk.org/pygtk2tutorial/index.html HTH, Tomeu On Wed, Feb 18, 2009 at 20:21, Wade Brainerd wad...@gmail.com wrote:

Re: [Sugar-devel] Newbie Developer - Where's the best place to start?

2009-02-18 Thread Wade Brainerd
That tutorial is also part of the Getting Started section on http://sugarlabs.org/go/ActivityTeam/Resources :) (although I included 7, 8, 9 and 12 in my list) Cheers, Wade On Wed, Feb 18, 2009 at 2:27 PM, Tomeu Vizoso to...@sugarlabs.org wrote: Hi, apart from the links already mentioned, I