Etoys, Alice and tile programming
ajbarrosbr
ajbn at cin.ufpe.br
Fri May 9 22:18:17 UTC 2003
Alan,
Thanks a lot for your quick reply.
My best,
Antonio Barros
Informatics Center
Federal University of Pernambuco
Brazil
--- In squeak at yahoogroups.com, Alan Kay <Alan.Kay at s...> wrote:
> This particular strand starting with one of the projects I saw in
the
> CDROM "Thinking Things" (I think it was the 3rd in the set). This
> project was basically about being able to march around a football
> field and the multiple marchers were controlled by a very simple
tile
> based programming system. Also, a grad student from a number of
years
> ago, Mike Travers, did a really excellent thesis at MIT about
enduser
> programming of autonomous agents -- the system was called AGAR --
and
> many of these ideas were used in the Vivarium project at Apple 15
> years ago. The thesis version of AGAR used DnD tiles to make
programs
> in Mike's very powerful system.
>
> The etoys originated as a design I did to make a nice constructive
> environment for the internet -- the Disney Family.com site -- in
> which small projects could make by parents and kids working
together.
> SqC made the etoys ideas work, and Kim Rose and teacher BJ Conn
> decided to see how they would work in a classroom. I thought the
> etoys lacked too many features to be really good in a classroom,
but
> I was wrong. The small number of features and the ease of use
turned
> out to be real virtues.
>
> We've been friends with Randy Pausch for a long time and have had a
> number of outstanding interns from his group at CMU over the years.
> For example, Jeff Pierce (now a prof at GaTech) did SqueakAlice
> working with Andreas Raab to tie it to Andreas' Balloon3D. Randy's
> group got interested in the etoys tile scripting and did a very
nice
> variant (it's rather different from etoys, and maybe better).
>
> Cheers,
>
> Alan
>
> At 8:57 PM -0300 5/8/03, ajbn at c... wrote:
> >Folks,
> >
> >I have been trying the new version of Alice <www.alice.org>. It
also uses
> >tile programming like Etoys.Just for curiosity, does anyone know
the
> >history of Tile Programming?
> >TIA,
> >
> >Antonio Barros
> >PhD Student
> >Informatics Center
> >Federal University of Pernambuco
> >Brazil
>
>
> --
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