[squeak-dev] Re: Can we beat 'Processing'?

karl ramberg karlramberg at gmail.com
Tue Nov 17 22:53:22 UTC 2015


It would be cool to have a simplified Workspace like scripting environment
for starting users. Maybe a scoped browser.

I have used various tile scripting systems and find that text is much
superior when making anything  more than simple toy projects.


Karl

On Tue, Nov 17, 2015 at 9:33 PM, tim Rowledge <tim at rowledge.org> wrote:

>
> > On 17-11-2015, at 12:05 PM, marcel.taeumel <Marcel.Taeumel at hpi.de>
> wrote:
> >
> > Squeak got PhidgetLab :)
> > http://www.hpi.uni-potsdam.de/hirschfeld/projects/phidgetlab/
>
> Very cool stuff. It would be nice to get that going on a Pi and use the
> gpio pins instead of the usb (or rather ‘as well as’ since the Pimoroni
> Flotilla system is just about to start shipping and is usb connected)
>
> There’s also the direct graphical stuff. It seems to be a bit ‘trivial
> workspace code’ (so we could offer some nicely wrapped easy to use
> interface) and a bit like the fabulous old MathMorphs & graphing that
> Leandro(?) did years ago. There’s a lot of neat sound stuff - both as a
> SonicPi beater and something usable within other apps
>
> The basic issue here is that there is a lot of cool educational stuff that
> has been done in Squeak that gets little exposure and really could make for
> some interesting Pi applications. Many of these would obviously work on
> other platforms as well, but the Pi is a big gorilla in edu for now, so
> let’s make use of it. More kids exposed to what you can do in a Smalltalk
> system means more youngsters growing up not accepting C/java/rubbish. Means
> more possible students for HPI and École des Mines and so on. Means more
> secure teaching jobs for you :-)
>
>
> tim
> --
> tim Rowledge; tim at rowledge.org; http://www.rowledge.org/tim
> Useful random insult:- Thinks everyone else is entitled to his opinion,
> like it or not.
>
>
>
>
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