[Newbies] I've just introduced some 9th graders to Squeak

[Ron Teitelbaum]

You might want to look at Scratch too.  Scratch is written in Squeak.
Although it is not intended to teach programming in Smalltalk or Squeak, it
does teach general programming concepts very well.  Plus it's really fun!

http://weeklysqueak.wordpress.com/2007/01/23/scratching-the-surface/ 

Ron Teitelbaum

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> From: beginners-bounces at lists.squeakfoundation.org [mailto:beginners-
> bounces at lists.squeakfoundation.org] On Behalf Of Brad Fuller
> Sent: Thursday, January 25, 2007 11:34 AM
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> Subject: Re: [Newbies] I've just introduced some 9th graders to Squeak
> 
> Russ wrote:
> > Hello. This is my first post to the beginners list. I've been a
> > perpetual beginner since I first found out about Squeak over ten years
> > ago ( can it really be that long ? at least somewhere at the beginning
> > of ver. 1.x ) . Anyway, I'm not a programmer, I'm a musician and an
> > explorer, and currently, a substitute teacher - teaching 9th graders
> > (gifted ones at that) computer skills. Today I introduced them to Squeak
> > ! It went really well. First  I talked about smalltalk, had them type in
> > the " Transcript show: 'Hello World'. " program in a workspace, and I'm
> > sure that bored them plenty. But I did not miss a beat. I next
> > introduced them to the morphs - the bouncing atoms and the blobs , etc..
> > and they were HOOKED ! 80 Kids now know about Squeak. Now what ? What
> > should I do with Squeak and my 9th graders that will thrill them further
> > ? Ideas ?
> 
> What do you want to teach them? That could provide us with more
> direction to help.
> 
> 
> Some ideas:
> 
> 
> * Have you looked at the projects on squeakland.org?
> 
> * Although it's a bit young for 9th graders, have you looked at the book
> "Powerful Ideas in the Classroom" by B.J. Allen-Conn and Kim Rose?
> 
> * Check out this video:
> future_software_development_series.kay-alan.lecture.2003-04-
> 24.102656947.wmv
> 
> at this location:
> http://ftp.squeak.org/Media/AlanKay/
> 
> Go to near the end and see Alan's demo of what other kids have done in
> squeak. It's a bit more advanced than the book, so it might fit in
> better for their age.
> 
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