On Mon, 2007-02-12 at 12:58 -0700, Levi Pearson wrote: > > I should really look more into Squeak to see if it makes doing this easy or > > not. > > > > Dan > > Squeak is very cool, but not as a system for making programs that look > like a typical user would expect a program to look like. ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ Why is this a problem? None of the programs I every wrote when I was in elementary school looked like anything commercial. That simply wasn't the point. The idea is to educate a student on how a computer works and how to write programs.
> I do think > it's a great educational computer platform, since it's got stuff in it > that looks fun to kids and makes it relatively easy to figure out how > to do similar things. The main trouble is that there's a LOT of stuff > in Squeak, and it's not all terribly well documented. It's a very > powerful system, though, and anyone curious about what it can do > should watch one of the many Alan Kay presentations on YouTube, in > which he uses Squeak as his slideshow mechanism and demos all sorts of > nifty stuff. /* PLUG: http://plug.org, #utah on irc.freenode.net Unsubscribe: http://plug.org/mailman/options/plug Don't fear the penguin. */
