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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