See the "Making Of". The second time it only took me 4 minutes :)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7Kd5YxOp73E
And please excuse my mumbling ...
- Bert -
On 2013-03-13, at 13:33, Marshall Hampton <hampto...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Thanks, that is helpful. I'm still having some trouble getting used to the
> environment but I think we can figure it out. One thing I was wondering is
> if an object, such as the triangle in your program, can create text and
> display it. Or perhaps some separate text object is needed?
>
> Thanks again for the quick response.
>
> -Marshall
>
> On Wed, Mar 13, 2013 at 7:15 AM, Bert Freudenberg <b...@freudenbergs.de>
> wrote:
> 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 -
>
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