[Newbies] Input and output of morphic text

Bert Freudenberg bert at freudenbergs.de
Wed Mar 13 12:40:39 UTC 2013


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 <hamptonio at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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 for the quick response.
> 
> -Marshall
> 
> On Wed, Mar 13, 2013 at 7:15 AM, Bert Freudenberg <bert at freudenbergs.de> wrote:
> On 2013-03-13, at 02:01, Marshall Hampton <hamptonio at gmail.com> 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++, Java, Pascal, Basic, Fortran,  Javascript, Ruby, R, and Mathematica.
> >
> > 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 by having her write a "Hello Pythagoras" program in each language.  This program should print "Hello Pythagoras" somehow, and then ask the user for two inputs (call them A and B).  It should then print sqrt(a^2 + b^2).
> >
> > For her third language she chose Squeak, since she knew that Scratch was written in it.  I would like to have her write the "Hello Pythagoras" program using Morphic objects, in a visually appealing way.  So far I have had some trouble finding a tutorial that covers relevant information.  I am sure I can figure this out by poking around long enough but if anyone has a pointer to documentation that might help, or a similar example, that would be great and much appreciated.
> 
> Here is how to do it in Etoys (using the Squeakland version from http://squeakland.org/ ):
> 
>         http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vfxNsYz52QA
> 
> Took maybe 10 minutes, and that's including the graphical display of the triangle :)
> 
> - Bert -
> 
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