This is great!  Just recently I resubscribed to the AJC (local Atlanta
newspaper)...for a while we went without it just because we could get the
same info off free websites...but, it was never practical to sit in front of
the computer to read the news.

If only I had a program that could clip stories from the web sites and have
it waiting on the printer every Sunday morning!

Cool!

- Stephen


> The 158 students of my Squeak class have finished (as of today!) and
> posted several of their projects to the class Swiki.
>
> This term, the students had to build personalized newspapers, where
> the user selects sites and topics of interest, and then has a
> newspaper built to spec.  Over the course of the term, groups had to
> support both Web and postscript versions of the newspaper.  (The
> general description is available at:
> http://coweb.cc.gatech.edu/cs2340/12)
>
> Examples of some of the output is available at
> http://coweb.cc.gatech.edu/cs2340/NewspaperSharing  If you're
> interested in how they did it, several of the groups wrote up their
> process as cases at http://coweb.cc.gatech.edu/cs2340/Cases (along
> with screenshots, class diagrams, and commentary on what worked and
> what didn't)
>
> In general, they:
> - Used HtmlParser, T-Gen, or their own recursive-descent parser to
> parse the HTML on the various websites.
> - Used PWS to serve the Web version of their newspaper
> - Used BookMorphs with cascading TextMorphs for the articles, then
> generated Postscript of the whole BookMorph to create their
> newspapers.  (Note: They were going to turn on avoiding occlusions as
> a way of inserting graphics, but none of the groups were able to get
> it working when TextMorphs cascaded from one page to the next of a
> BookMorph.  They WERE able to get it working when they did by hand,
> but not via code.  I haven't tried to replicate the bug yet.)
>
> In general, these were BIG Squeak projects -- around 75-100 pages of code.
>
> FYI,
> Mark
> --------------------------
> Mark Guzdial : Georgia Tech : College of Computing : Atlanta, GA
> 30332-0280
> Associate Professor - Learning Sciences & Technologies.
> Collaborative Software Lab
> (404) 894-5618 : Fax (404) 894-0673 : guzdial at cc.gatech.edu
> http://www.cc.gatech.edu/gvu/people/Faculty/Mark.Guzdial.html