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==Introduction==

==Introduction==

A few months ago one of our classes covered the OLPC as a popular choice for low cost laptops for developing regions of the world. Our professor asked us to develop an application for the platform. Our classmates and ourselves discovered how scattered the information for the process of developing an "activity" (OLPC term for application) was. As history has shown, ease of application development is directly related to application success. While this guide will not make developing and debugging applications as easy as hitting F5 in MS Visual Studio, it seeks to provide guidance to a developer who has experience developing in Windows and would like to give XO development a shot. The only thing that you need to know going into this guide is a familiarity with the Python programming language, as well as Pygame. If you don't have this experience, I would recommend [http://docs.python.org/tut] and [http://www.pygame.org/docs/tut/chimp/ChimpLineByLine.html], respectively. In this tutorial we will cover: Cross Coding with Python and Pygame  (a Python library of modules to make game programming easier), emulation, file transfer between host and emulated disk, activity creation and activity distribution by walking you through the creation of a typing tutor like this one.

A few months ago one of our classes covered the OLPC as a popular choice for low cost laptops for developing regions of the world. Our professor asked us to develop an application for the platform. Our classmates and ourselves discovered how scattered the information for the process of developing an "activity" (OLPC term for application) was. As history has shown, ease of application development is directly related to application success. While this guide will not make developing and debugging applications as easy as hitting F5 in MS Visual Studio, it seeks to provide guidance to a developer who has experience developing in Windows and would like to give XO development a shot. The only thing that you need to know going into this guide is a familiarity with the Python programming language, as well as Pygame. If you don't have this experience, I would recommend [http://docs.python.org/tut] and [http://www.pygame.org/docs/tut/chimp/ChimpLineByLine.html], respectively. In this tutorial we will cover: Cross Coding with Python and Pygame  (a Python library of modules to make game programming easier), emulation, file transfer between host and emulated disk, activity creation and activity distribution by walking you through the creation of a typing tutor like this one.