Awesome!
It is good for projects like Scratch and Sophie to show off what Squeak can do, with a lot of love and hard work :)
Steve
On Nov 29, 2007, at 1:43 PM, Randal L. Schwartz wrote:
Yesterday, I did two Squeak-related segments for The Lab With Leo (labwithleo.com), a technology show that is shown on cable in Canada and Australia, and on bittorrent endpoints around the world with some clever googling.
I talked about the OLPC Etoys image for show #149 (each show's number is shown prominently in the opening). I did the classic "draw a car and control it with a drawn steering wheel" demo. Thanks Alan, for that.
For show #137, I showed the Scratch programming environment from scratch.mit.edu. I made the default cat "follow the mouse", and didn't realize until midway through that it was more anthropomorphic than I had realized. :) Of course, when I duplicated that cat, Leo Laporte uttered "copy cat", and got me laughing as well. I mentioned that Squeak powered Scratch, but didn't go into it as deep as I did for the Etoys talk. I also emphasized the community aspect, of being able to upload my stupid project and download others.
I'm happy to have shown Squeak in a very public venue. This should raise the visibility of Squeak-for-kids, since this show is highly respected and watched.
The episodes should air in the mid-January timeframe, so watch for them.
If someone could help me get into Croquet a bit more, I'm being asked for topics for February already. (nudge!)
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