One Laptop Per Child Application Development 33
An anonymous reader writes "This OLPC (One-Laptop-Per-Child) tutorial teaches you how to develop Python activities for the XO laptop. It covers the ins and outs of Sugar (the XO user interface, or UI) and the details behind activity development. You will also learn about Python programming, Sugar application program interfaces (APIs) for Python, and platform emulation with QEMU. Learn OLPC application development and help the worlds children."
Yet another sign-in-required alphaworks article... (Score:3, Informative)
Thanks,
Anonymous IBM-coward
PS. No, I'm not new here. Why do you ask?
Marketing to the inevitable (Score:1)
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Well, this isn't such a far-fetched idea, considering that EA donated Sim City to the OLPC project [donhopkins.com] and I don't think it was a completely altruist move.
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Re:Food? Power? Water? (Score:5, Funny)
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NUT records what you eat and analyzes your meals for nutrient levels in terms of the "Daily Value" (DV). The
program uses the free food composition database from the USDA. By experimenting, you can find the optimal level
of the various nutrients and how to implement this with foods available to you.
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Not at all. You can still weigh organic ingredients.
If you have a 100g of carrots then you look it up, if you have an 100g bowl of rice you can look it up.
The USDA Table of Nutrient Retention Factors is quite comprehensive. You can enter your own data too.
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And THINK before you code (Score:2)
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It's still great even then. Sticks, stones, knives, wheels, writing, domesticated horses, the postal system, electricity, narcotics, light bulbs, and email are all used for bad purposes, but they're used to far greater good effect than evil. I'm sure criminals will have a field day with the OLPC, but people will be too busy managing the positive effects to care. It's very hard to design morality into tools, especially w
full article pdf (Score:5, Informative)
Can we get a OLPC simulator environment yet? (Score:3, Interesting)
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NerdKits: educational microcontroller kits for a digital generation. [nerdkits.com]
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they have made virtual machine images available for quite a long time.
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So, plugging in a full size USB Keyboard won't work?
Bill
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Audacity, gcc,etc.etc. (Score:3, Informative)
Yum Install ...
Audacity downloads and is practically turnkey. GCC works out of the chute. People are even getting Free Doom to run on it. The limit isn't the tech but the experimentation of packages.
Think of the punctuation (Score:1)
And start by teaching them the proper use of the apostrophe.
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Maemo! (Score:3, Insightful)
The Record Application... (Score:1)
Thats not long enough, so change it: How to let the Record activity to record than 45 seconds of audio. [hackszine.com]