[Tutor] Programming Ideas, need some focus

[Eric Abrahamsen]

> Any takers? Eric on the mac side? Some other windows user on the
> windows side? I guarantee OLPC will be running on your computer by the
> end of this.

I'll give this a shot this Saturday – I ought to be an ideal test  
candidate since I'm more or less an installation/configuration idjit.  
I'll let you know how it goes. Will it conflict with an existing pyGTK  
installation?

Both Snakes and Ladders and the pipelines thing sound potentially  
interesting, I'll get back to you guys in a couple days...

Thanks!
Eric


>
>
>       --Michael
>
> On 1/16/08, Eric Abrahamsen <eric at abrahamsen.com> wrote:
>> 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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>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> --
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> Michael Langford
> Phone: 404-386-0495
> Consulting: http://www.RowdyLabs.com
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