But Squeakland is more about using Squeak in all forms of education. Not so much learning programming. If I were teaching programming in Smalltalk, I'd probably start with the Laser game (or maybe the Robots book from Stef).
On Mon, Jun 1, 2009 at 7:13 AM, David Faught dave.faught@gmail.com wrote:
Gary Dunn wrote:
I am planning an introductory course in Smalltalk for high school students. This will be starting from scratch; no previous programming experience required. The goal is to be able to create self-made personal software.
To this end I have been working through The Laser Game Tutorial and Squeak by Example. Neither seem right for beginners.
Can anyone recommend any other books or teaching materials? Maybe a successful syllabus?
Hi Gary,
You should check with the people at Squeakland, http://www.squeakland.org/ possibly through their mailing list at http://lists.squeakland.org/mailman/listinfo/squeakland
They are much more oriented to educational use of Squeak, although there is a lot of cross-pollination on the developer list too.
Dave