I'm a beginner who has never used Squeak. Please Help.

Knox, Tamika tknox at ajilon.com
Tue Oct 16 12:55:19 UTC 2001


	Alan, we absolutely appreciate you going out of your way for us!
This is absolutely terrific! We have a presentation update tomorrow in
class. The three of us will dive into everything you have prepared and we
promise to keep you updated on our progress.

	I sincerely thank you!

	-Tamika
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> Message: 2
> Date: Mon, 15 Oct 2001 18:36:04 -0800
> To: squeak-dev at lists.squeakfoundation.org
> From: Alan Kay <Alan.Kay at squeakland.org>
> Subject: Re: I'm a beginner who has never used Squeak. Please Help.
> Reply-To: squeak-dev at lists.squeakfoundation.org
> 
> Tamika --
> 
> I have put the first pass at your tutorial on one of our swiki 
> servers. As usual, the project turned out to be a lot easier to 
> actually make than documenting it in enough detail to be useful! So I 
> have quite a bit more writing to be done.  Also, I have to upload a 
> lot more screen shots for the writing that has been done. I can see 
> that this will take a few days. By contrast, the bare bones of the 
> project took about 3 hours to do (of which about 2 hours was making 
> and playing with the animated character).
> 
> However, there is enough there to get started (I hope).
> 
> Here is the URL: http://squeakland.org:8080/super/200
> 
> I did the entire project just using telephone rates (26K baud most of 
> the time). Both Squeak and the swiki server performed really well. 
> The main map is the biggest bottleneck at low data rates, but still 
> is possible.
> 
> I would like to invite others in the Squeak list who are interested 
> in the problems of documentation, etc., to participate. For example, 
> it would nice for Tamika and her classmates to easily use Luciano's 
> speech synthesis stuff for their animated character. Maybe Mark 
> Guzdial and his colleagues at Georgia Tech can tell us about some of 
> their experiments with etoys and other parts of Squeak.
> 
> Also, there are probably some very good documentation pages already 
> done in this area that could be crossreferenced in the "Tamika 
> Tutorial".
> 
> Tomorrow I will get another little stretch in the early morning to 
> document how I made the animated world character, and also, I should 
> publish my version of this project at some point. (Maybe not right 
> away in order to test the usefulness of the tutorial).
> 
> Cheers,
> 
> Alan
> 
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