I'm a beginner who has never used Squeak. Please Help.
Alan Kay
Alan.Kay at squeakland.org
Tue Oct 16 17:43:19 UTC 2001
Tamika --
You are welcome. Thanks for being the catalyst for some badly needed
and long overdue documentation ....
Please check out the swiki tutorial several times a day for the next
4 or 5 days.
Cheers,
Alan
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At 8:55 AM -0400 10/16/01, Knox, Tamika wrote:
> 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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>>
>>
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