[Tutor] Programming Ideas, need some focus

[Eric Abrahamsen]

I'm on a Mac, and it seems the current advice for Sugar emulation on  
the Mac is "come back next year, or the year after"... I did get PyGTK  
working, tho.


On Jan 16, 2008, at 10:13 PM, Michael Langford wrote:

> No, but this is quite useful for getting it up and going on your PC:
> http://wiki.laptop.org/go/OS_images_for_emulation
>
> I was looking at Metropolis (the non-TM version of SimCity) as its gui
> is all written in python....
>
>          --Michael
>
>
>
> On 1/16/08, Eric Abrahamsen <eric at abrahamsen.com> wrote:
>> Hey, on this topic, I spent some time this afternoon googling the One
>> Laptop Per Child (OLPC) project (the GUI is done with Python and
>> PyGTK), to see if there were any collaborative open-source projects I
>> could contribute to. Seems like a perfect opportunity to get a little
>> more Python experience and actually do something useful. I found lots
>> of noble exhortations to help, but very little in the way of
>> specifics. Does anyone know of any ongoing projects that could use
>> volunteers? Of the middling-capable range?
>>
>> Eric
>>
>> On Jan 16, 2008, at 9:29 PM, Michael Langford wrote:
>>
>>> There are programming contests you can enter. I don't know of any  
>>> more
>>> still running past these two (but would love to hear of more):
>>>
>>> Sphere Online Judge:
>>> http://www.spoj.pl/problems/classical/
>>>
>>> Topcoder's Development Contests:
>>> http://www.topcoder.com/tc?module=ViewActiveContests&ph=113
>>>
>>>      --Michael
>>>
>>>
>>> On 1/16/08, Fiyawerx <fiyawerx at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>> I've been over google for hours now, and I'm sort of at a lull in  
>>>> my
>>>> learning, as I don't really have a current "goal". I know I could
>>>> set some
>>>> easy goal like to learn a specific function or feature, but I still
>>>> have a
>>>> hard time with that approach also. I was wondering if anyone knows
>>>> of any
>>>> sites where people might request "projects" almost like rentacoder,
>>>> but for
>>>> free stuff and/or just for fun. Almost an 'It would be nice if I
>>>> had a
>>>> program that did this.. " type of thing to give me some direction.
>>>> Or does
>>>> anyone else have any ideas for some types of programs that might
>>>> actually
>>>> prove useful to people for beginners to work on?
>>>>
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