To all --

Also talk a look at the recent stuff that Scott Wallace has added to 
browsing and in the tools flap.

But I was also hinting (per Andreas' comment) that a simple 
filtration of the existing classes down to some 100 or so probably 
won't quite do it -- and will thus require a few new classes that 
provide more consolidated and powerful abstractions. Also, the Etoys 
part of the system has some good hints about simpler and more 
powerful object models for early users.

Cheers,

Alan

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At 8:12 PM -0800 1/19/02, Ned Konz wrote:
>On Saturday 19 January 2002 03:22 pm, 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.
>
>Ah, found it.
>
>Jason Steffler, in March of ought-one, submitted the following change set,
>whose preamble says:
>
>A simple extension intended as an instructional aid for newbies.  Allows you
>to scope the protocols and classes that the student sees, and thus help to
>reduce the amount of 'noise' they need to sift through.
>
>To open browser do: 'ScopedBrowser openBrowserForArticle4' as an example
>
>To run the SUnit tests, do: 'TestModel openAsMorph', then click on the 'run'
>button."!
>
>--
>Ned Konz
>currently: Stanwood, WA
>email:     ned at bike-nomad.com
>homepage:  http://bike-nomad.com
>
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