Howdy!
I'm working with OLE Nepal (http://nepal.ole.org/) to introduce XOs into public schools here in Kathmandu. The plan is to write lots of Squeak-based educational software to supplement the standard curriculum in math and english so that the machines can be used in the classroom.
I want to sort out a good and open collaborative development environment for writing the code. I'm wondering how you guys develop the XO Etoys image and what you would recommend to us?
My first thought is to install Monticello via Squeakmap but I'm unable to do this cleanly due to apparent compatibility problems, which makes me wonder how other people are working. Advice welcome!
Cheers, -Luke (wondering how he overlooked this mailing list until now!)
On Sep 27, 2007, at 7:32 , Luke Gorrie wrote:
Howdy!
I'm working with OLE Nepal (http://nepal.ole.org/) to introduce XOs into public schools here in Kathmandu. The plan is to write lots of Squeak-based educational software to supplement the standard curriculum in math and english so that the machines can be used in the classroom.
I want to sort out a good and open collaborative development environment for writing the code. I'm wondering how you guys develop the XO Etoys image and what you would recommend to us?
We use a dev image, the deployed image is created from that by stripping sources and unneeded stuff. Start reading at
http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Etoys
and don't hesitate to ask back with your questions. Ah, and we jsut switched to 2.2, so after loading all updates, you need to switch the dev image, too:
http://lists.laptop.org/pipermail/etoys/2007-September/001136.html
My first thought is to install Monticello via Squeakmap but I'm unable to do this cleanly due to apparent compatibility problems, which makes me wonder how other people are working. Advice welcome!
That should work fine in the dev image actually, I use Monticello, too.
- Bert -
On Sep 27, 2007, at 7:46 AM, Bert Freudenberg wrote:
On Sep 27, 2007, at 7:32 , Luke Gorrie wrote:
My first thought is to install Monticello via Squeakmap but I'm unable to do this cleanly due to apparent compatibility problems, which makes me wonder how other people are working. Advice welcome!
That should work fine in the dev image actually, I use Monticello, too.
- Bert -
Maybe it would be a good idea to pre-configure the dev image we give out so that is has the latest version of SqueakMap (i.e. 2.2 rather than 2.0,) and so that it has Monticello pre-installed...
-- Scott
On 28/09/2007, Scott Wallace scott.wallace@squeakland.org wrote:
Maybe it would be a good idea to pre-configure the dev image we give out so that is has the latest version of SqueakMap (i.e. 2.2 rather than 2.0,) and so that it has Monticello pre-installed...
This would be useful for me! With help on the #squeak IRC channel I've loaded Monticello into my image but it did involve walkbacks and backported changes, so I'm curious how you guys are doing it. The problem is reproducible for me by just opening SqueakMap and letting it install Monticello as part of its self-upgrade to version 2.2.
I'm also wondering about a suitable choice of respository for project files and bits of media that I want to reuse between a lot of projects (sound clips and so on). I could be boring and use Git, but I wonder about other options -- like for sound clips and icons that I want globally available to base64 encode them and store them with code in Monticello, or to use these scary looking programs like SuperSwiki2 to store project files. Any suggestions from experienced people?
Cheers, -Luke
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