Learning Squeak
Gary McGovern
gary.play at btopenworld.com
Sun Jan 20 04:24:39 UTC 2002
It'll take a lot of work to adapt the M206 learning works to Squeak. I'd probably adapt
a couple of learning books to Squeak projects at the most, but not a filtered browser.
After considerable thought I'm more inclined to make a web site "Squeak School" that
will link to all the Squeak learning resources in all media. And each resource will be
graded just like school / uni levels.
I've mentioned it before but noone seemed interested, but I'll do it anyway.
That way people can learn from projects, active essays, web pages, books in an ordered
fashion.
Happy?
Gary
20/01/02 00:08:04, Nick Brown <maillist at bredon-gill.demon.co.uk> wrote:
>On M206 the learning works browser starts off with just a very minimal
>set of classes, and with each unit of the course, the filter opens up
>to show more classes.
>
>IIRC Maybe a year ago some M206 students were looking at adapting
>Squeak for this course, and the filtered browser was certainly talked
>about. I don't know whether anything was actually implemented, but I
>seem to recall John Hinsley being a part of this discussion.
>
>Any idea, John?
>
>-Nick Brown
>
>On Sat, 19 Jan 2002 15:22:09 -0800, Alan Kay wrote:
>
>>Les --
>>
>>I think it would be great for some of the experienced Smalltalkers on
>>the list to take a crack at making a "filtered Browser" for a core
>>Squeak for beginners. How about ~ 100 classes to do most things? My
>>personal preference would be for a set of abstractions that include
>>Morphic instead of MVC, but any nice filtering would be a great
>>start. To do this really nicely, it might require a few new classes
>>to be made that are the higher-level abstraction for what is now
>>"over subclassing" in the current system.
>>
>>Cheers,
>>
>>Alan
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