Pink Plane vs Blue Plane
tblanchard at mac.com
tblanchard at mac.com
Fri Feb 14 01:52:48 UTC 2003
On Thursday, February 13, 2003, at 05:04 PM, Alan Kay wrote:
> I've been trying to figure out a practical way to capture a lot of the
> "here's how you do x" in a form that others can use to make real
> documentation.
The tutorial on the map project is really quite good as raw material.
Only a couple places did you make a leap that assumed I knew where a
control was that I didn't.
Anyhow it helped me a lot.
> I've recently been really inspired by the Japanese response to
> the etoys stuff (and to new ideas in general). They have gotten very
> enthusiastic about the etoy approach and are starting to put it into
> schools in Japan. What they do is to attend talks that we give and use
> them as the basis for a really detailed summary of the ideas put
> forth. One example that really overwhelmed us is a website, mostly
> about the etoys stuff, done by Yamamoto-san (whom we haven't yet met)
> that has literally hundreds of webpages of documentation in Japanese
> and screen shots showing how to use etoys. This is so good and so
> extensive that we are in the process of translating the site to
> English in order to get this documentation!
self slap on: [:forehead |
Yes this makes perfect sense. Japanese is an awful language for
textual programming. EToys with Japanese vocabs is quite possibly the
best (only?) Japanese native language software construction environment
around. I can see the attraction.
]
-Todd Blanchard
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