[Newbies] Thanks for the fantastic ideas.

2013-03-13 Thread Casey Ransberger
I knew I was going to be overwhelmed and blown away when I asked the community for suggestions. I'm at the point where I'm still reading ideas people wrote to share with me, and I have a few favorites that I'm investigating, but I'm gonna have to close the flood gates! Before my brain explodes, SP

[Newbies] GSoC (was: Thanks for the fantastic ideas.)

2013-03-13 Thread Bert Freudenberg
Would any of the idea submitters like a student to work on them? There is another Google Summer of Code coming up, and we always need project ideas. In a previous GSoC, Ricardo Moran from Argentina made some awesome new Etoys tools. So please, send your idea to Janko, too! - Bert - Am 13.03.20

Re: [Newbies] Input and output of morphic text

2013-03-13 Thread Bert Freudenberg
On 2013-03-13, at 02:01, Marshall Hampton 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

[Newbies] Re: GSoC (was: Thanks for the fantastic ideas.)

2013-03-13 Thread Bert Freudenberg
On 2013-03-13, at 11:04, Bert Freudenberg wrote: > Would any of the idea submitters like a student to work on them? There is > another Google Summer of Code coming up, and we always need project ideas. In > a previous GSoC, Ricardo Moran from Argentina made some awesome new Etoys > tools. So p

Re: [Newbies] Input and output of morphic text

2013-03-13 Thread Marshall Hampton
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

Re: [Newbies] Input and output of morphic text

2013-03-13 Thread Bert Freudenberg
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 wrote: > Thanks, that is helpful. I'm still having some trouble getting used to the > env

[Newbies] Re: Input and output of morphic text

2013-03-13 Thread Sean P. DeNigris
Marshall Hampton wrote > 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... > > For her third language she chose Squeak, since she knew that Scratch was > written in it. Marshall,

[Newbies] Re: Input and output of morphic text

2013-03-13 Thread Sean P. DeNigris
Bert Freudenberg wrote > See the "Making Of". The second time it only took me 4 minutes :) > > http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7Kd5YxOp73E Really great, Bert. eToys is wonderful :) - Cheers, Sean -- View this message in context: http://forum.world.st/Input-and-output-of-morphic-text-

Re: [Newbies] Re: Input and output of morphic text

2013-03-13 Thread Bert Freudenberg
On 2013-03-13, at 15:54, "Sean P. DeNigris" wrote: > Marshall Hampton wrote >> 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... >> >> For her third language she chose Squeak

[Newbies] Re: Input and output of morphic text

2013-03-13 Thread Sean P. DeNigris
Bert Freudenberg wrote > ... not to forget the more than 1 billion school-aged children world-wide. Gotta start somewhere ;) - Cheers, Sean -- View this message in context: http://forum.world.st/Input-and-output-of-morphic-text-tp4676522p4676624.html Sent from the Squeak - Beginners mailin

Re: [Newbies] Input and output of morphic text

2013-03-13 Thread Marshall Hampton
Ahh, thanks, that is perfect. Exactly what I needed. It is extremely helpful to see screencasts with Squeak. I can recreate this with the Squeak-4.3 that we are using, but maybe I'll switch to the etoys version. Again many thanks for the quick and useful responses. -Marshall On Wed, Mar 13, 2

Re: [Newbies] Input and output of morphic text

2013-03-13 Thread Casey Ransberger
Speaking of Pythagoras, Alan Kay demos a visual proof for the theorem that's super easy for just about anyone to understand right away using Etoys in his TED talk, which is worth a look: http://www.ted.com/talks/alan_kay_shares_a_powerful_idea_about_ideas.html -- Casey Ransberger On Wed, Mar 13