Filmed and edited by Simple Coat Productions.
Episode 02 of this series documenting the One Laptop per Child project focuses on the activities built for the laptop. Activities, not applications, since the machine is designed for children and applications is a decidedly adult word.
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Welcome to this tutorial series on porting a PyGTK game to the OLPC’s Sugar environment. While we will be concentrating on a game called Block Party, the lessons taught here can be used as a guide to create or port any number of applications. Games are just more fun to learn with. On top of learning a bit about the Sugar environment, one will also learn about graphics and input handling in PyGTK as well as a few object oriented concepts. All code in this tutorial should run as standalone PyGTK apps as well as inside of the Sugar environment.
Last time, we talked about installing Sugar so that you could emulate the OLPC environment on your system. Now it’s time to explore how activities work on the XO.
This is the story of the little green laptop that could. Meet the faces behind the One Laptop per Child initiative and see what they do every day in the Cambridge, MA office. Sit in on a brainstorming session. And find out what you can do to help.
One Laptop Per Child comes closer to being a reality every day — and every day, more people are looking for ways to get involved with the OLPC project. It will still be quite a while before the XO systems are available for broad distribution, but people can see for themselves what the XO is all about by downloading Sugar, the core of the OLPC Human Interface.
You’ve heard about the One Laptop per Child project. We’ve written about it. So have Wired and Popular Science magazines. Eager to see how this child-friendly laptop will work? What it will look like?
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