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====Sugar Human Interface Guidelines (HIG)====

* http://~~wiki.laptop~~.org/go/~~OLPC_Human_Interface_Guidelines~~.

* http://sugarlabs.org/go/DesignTeam/Human_Interface_Guidelines.

These pages give a good introduction to the thought process behind the Sugar environment and will help a lot when designing your activity.

Required reading before planning the user interface for your activity. These pages give a good introduction to the thought process behind the Sugar environment and will help a lot when designing your activity.

====JSON introduction====

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JSON is a data format commonly used to store activity data in the Journal.

* http://simplejson.googlecode.com/svn/tags/simplejson-2.0.8/docs/index.html

Currently, the recommended JSON library is simplejson. It has also become the standard JSON library in Python 2.6+.

====Git introduction====

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Git is the version control software used by Sugar Labs. It is a distributed version control system and is quite powerful, but requires a lot of command line use.

====XML ~~routine~~====

====XML routines====

There are [http://docs.python.org/library/markup.html dozens] Python classes to satisfy XML standard but if you want just save/load parameters use "Zen of XML" in Python - [http://effbot.org/zone/element.htm ElementTree] library. It's supported out of the box in Python 2.5(xml.etree.ElementTree module). In previous ~~version~~ you'll have to install library by yourself.

There are [http://docs.python.org/library/markup.html dozens] Python classes to satisfy the XML standard, but if you want just save/load parameters use "Zen of XML" in Python - [http://effbot.org/zone/element.htm ElementTree] library. It's supported out of the box in Python 2.5 (xml.etree.ElementTree module). In previous versions you'll have to install library by yourself.

But if you just need a simple configuration format to read/write Python objects, check out JSON instead.

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* http://sugarlabs.org/go/DevelopmentTeam/Almanac Detailed Sugar API overview. Quite in depth and offers answers to common questions.

* http://pygstdocs.berlios.de/ Python GStreamer bindings.

* http://~~wiki.laptop~~.org/go/~~OLPC_Human_Interface_Guidelines~~ The design behind the Sugar interface. ~~Useful when~~ planning your activity.

* http://sugarlabs.org/go/DesignTeam/Human_Interface_Guidelines The design behind the Sugar interface. Very important to read and understand before planning your activity's user interface.

* http://cairographics.org/documentation/pycairo/ Cairo Python API reference. Very sparse, use the tutorial instead.

* http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Low-level_Activity_API Information on how activities interact with Sugar.

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* http://www.tortall.net/mu/wiki/CairoTutorial A great introduction to Cairo in PyGTK and vector graphics drawing in general.

* http://www.json.org/fatfree.html An overview of the JSON data format.

* http://simplejson.googlecode.com/svn/tags/simplejson-2.0.8/docs/index.html Documentation for the recommended JSON library.

* http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Shared_Sugar_Activities High level overview of collaboration.

* http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Collaboration_Tutorial Step by step tutorial on integrating collaboration into an activity.

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 ====Sugar Human Interface Guidelines (HIG)====
-* http://wiki.laptop.org/go/OLPC_Human_Interface_Guidelines.
+* http://sugarlabs.org/go/DesignTeam/Human_Interface_Guidelines.
-These pages give a good introduction to the thought process behind the Sugar environment and will help a lot when designing your activity.
+Required reading before planning the user interface for your activity.  These pages give a good introduction to the thought process behind the Sugar environment and will help a lot when designing your activity.
 ====JSON introduction====
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 JSON is a data format commonly used to store activity data in the Journal.
+* http://simplejson.googlecode.com/svn/tags/simplejson-2.0.8/docs/index.html
+Currently, the recommended JSON library is simplejson.  It has also become the standard JSON library in Python 2.6+.
 ====Git introduction====
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 Git is the version control software used by Sugar Labs.  It is a distributed version control system and is quite powerful, but requires a lot of command line use.
-====XML routine====
+====XML routines====
-There are [http://docs.python.org/library/markup.html dozens] Python classes to satisfy XML standard but if you want just save/load parameters use "Zen of XML" in Python - [http://effbot.org/zone/element.htm ElementTree] library. It's supported out of the box in Python 2.5(xml.etree.ElementTree module). In previous version you'll have to install library by yourself.
+There are [http://docs.python.org/library/markup.html dozens] Python classes to satisfy the XML standard, but if you want just save/load parameters use "Zen of XML" in Python - [http://effbot.org/zone/element.htm ElementTree] library. It's supported out of the box in Python 2.5 (xml.etree.ElementTree module).  In previous versions you'll have to install library by yourself.
+But if you just need a simple configuration format to read/write Python objects, check out JSON instead.
 ====Speech synthesizing====
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 * http://sugarlabs.org/go/DevelopmentTeam/Almanac Detailed Sugar API overview.  Quite in depth and offers answers to common questions.
 * http://pygstdocs.berlios.de/ Python GStreamer bindings.
-* http://wiki.laptop.org/go/OLPC_Human_Interface_Guidelines The design behind the Sugar interface.  Useful when planning your activity.
+* http://sugarlabs.org/go/DesignTeam/Human_Interface_Guidelines The design behind the Sugar interface.  Very important to read and understand before planning your activity's user interface.
 * http://cairographics.org/documentation/pycairo/ Cairo Python API reference.  Very sparse, use the tutorial instead.
 * http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Low-level_Activity_API Information on how activities interact with Sugar.
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 * http://www.tortall.net/mu/wiki/CairoTutorial A great introduction to Cairo in PyGTK and vector graphics drawing in general.
 * http://www.json.org/fatfree.html An overview of the JSON data format.
+* http://simplejson.googlecode.com/svn/tags/simplejson-2.0.8/docs/index.html Documentation for the recommended JSON library.
 * http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Shared_Sugar_Activities High level overview of collaboration.
 * http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Collaboration_Tutorial Step by step tutorial on integrating collaboration into an activity.