But Squeakland is more about using Squeak in all forms of education.
Not so much learning programming. If I were teaching programming in
Smalltalk, I'd probably start with the Laser game (or maybe the Robots
book from Stef).

On Mon, Jun 1, 2009 at 7:13 AM, David Faught <dave.faught at gmail.com> wrote:
> Gary Dunn wrote:
>>I am planning an introductory course in Smalltalk for high school students. This will be starting from scratch; no previous programming
>>experience required. The goal is to be able to create self-made personal software.
>>
>>To this end I have been working through The Laser Game Tutorial and Squeak by Example. Neither seem right for beginners.
>>
>>Can anyone recommend any other books or teaching materials? Maybe a successful syllabus?
>
> Hi Gary,
>
> You should check with the people at Squeakland,
> http://www.squeakland.org/  possibly through their mailing list at
> http://lists.squeakland.org/mailman/listinfo/squeakland
>
> They are much more oriented to educational use of Squeak, although
> there is a lot of cross-pollination on the developer list too.
>
> Dave
>
>