 | Level: Intermediate M. Tim Jones (mtj@mtjones.com), Consultant Engineer, Emulex Corp.
18 Dec 2007 The XO laptop (of the One-Laptop-Per-Child initiative) is an
inexpensive laptop project intended to help educate children around the world. The
laptop includes many innovations, such as a novel, inexpensive, and durable hardware
design and the use of GNU/Linux® as the underlying operating system. The XO
also includes an application environment written in Python with a human interface
called Sugar, accessible to everyone (including kids). Explore the Sugar APIs
and learn how to develop and debug a graphical activity in Sugar using Python.
In this tutorial
- Develop Python activities for the XO laptop
- Learn about Sugar (the XO user interface, or UI) and the details behind
activity development
- Learn about Python programming, Sugar application program interfaces (APIs)
for Python, and platform emulation with QEMU
Objectives
In this tutorial, you learn about the XO laptop and how to write a Python
activity using the Sugar UI. Along the way, you learn more about the XO laptop,
its architecture, internals, and use.
Prerequisites
This tutorial is written for Linux developers who want to learn more about the XO
laptop and the Sugar UI. It assumes a familiarity with the Linux shell and a basic
understanding of the Python language.
System requirements
This tutorial provides a hands-on approach to learning about the XO laptop and
Sugar activities. It assumes a Linux computer with at least 1.1GB of free
space.
Duration
More than 2 hours
Formats html, pdf
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