On 2013-03-13, at 02:01, Marshall Hampton <hampto...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi, > > I am new to Squeak and Smalltalk. After reading a few tutorials I am very > intrigued and impressed. Brief background for me: I am a mathematician, I am > fairly skilled in Python, and I have worked at to varying degrees with C, > C++, Java, Pascal, Basic, Fortran, Javascript, Ruby, R, and Mathematica. > > I am homeschooling my daughter, who is 9. She is quite proficient at > Scratch. A week ago I decided to give her a very brief tour of other > programming languages by having her write a "Hello Pythagoras" program in > each language. This program should print "Hello Pythagoras" somehow, and > then ask the user for two inputs (call them A and B). It should then print > sqrt(a^2 + b^2). > > For her third language she chose Squeak, since she knew that Scratch was > written in it. I would like to have her write the "Hello Pythagoras" program > using Morphic objects, in a visually appealing way. So far I have had some > trouble finding a tutorial that covers relevant information. I am sure I can > figure this out by poking around long enough but if anyone has a pointer to > documentation that might help, or a similar example, that would be great and > much appreciated. Here is how to do it in Etoys (using the Squeakland version from http://squeakland.org/ ): http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vfxNsYz52QA Took maybe 10 minutes, and that's including the graphical display of the triangle :) - Bert - _______________________________________________ Beginners mailing list Beginners@lists.squeakfoundation.org http://lists.squeakfoundation.org/mailman/listinfo/beginners
