Usability and look-and-feel (was Re: [squeak-dev] The future of Squeak & Pharo (was Re: [Pharo-project] [ANN] Pharo MIT license clean))

Wed Jul 1 17:25:51 UTC 2009

At Wed, 1 Jul 2009 12:59:33 +0200,
Ryan Simmons wrote:
> 
> Rita, that is very interesting as I was wondering about whether the
> "show code textually" was actually used by kids/students.

  With proper mentors who knows it around, they sure do.

  Just a sidenote, if you google:

http://www.google.com/search?q=$B%9%/%$!<%/!!%9%/%j%W%H(B

(meaning "squeak script" in Japanese)

you get something close to million hits.  (rather 350,000 for
English).  Many pages are about the tile scripting, but quite a few
explains how to go from there to Smalltalk.

-- Yoshiki