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

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

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

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

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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.

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

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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.

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

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====XML routines====

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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.

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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.

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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.

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

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* 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.

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* 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.

Wade

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