<HTML><BODY style="word-wrap: break-word; -khtml-nbsp-mode: space; -khtml-line-break: after-white-space; ">I have a question: How should I be thinking about whether to wait for Tweak or jump into Squeak and start learning. <DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV><SPAN class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </SPAN>CAn anyone give me a sense of how far away Tweak is? </DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV><SPAN class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </SPAN>Will knowledge of Morphic be obsoleted by Tweak? </DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV><SPAN class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </SPAN>I don't really have a specific project in mind but rather am interested in getting my feet wet with the idea of building concrete, visible, directly manipulable models of conceptual things that empower understanding.</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV><SPAN class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </SPAN>It seems like Tweak is an attempt to do again some of what was done before, but from a perspective of knowing more for having already been over the territory. That suggests to me that it might be foolish to jump into Squeak right now, but I know so little.</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>Thank you very much for taking the time,</DIV><DIV>I'm very much enjoying learning from what you all write,</DIV><BR><DIV> <P style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Helvetica">Randy Siler</P><P style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Helvetica">Coordinator, CIDR Computing</P><P style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Helvetica">Center for Instructional Development and Research</P><P style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Helvetica">University of Washington</P><P style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Helvetica">407 A Sieg Hall. Box 351725</P><P style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Helvetica">SEATTLE, WA 98195</P><P style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Helvetica">voice: 206-543-0751 fax: 206-685-1213</P><P style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Helvetica"><A href="mailto:rsiler@u.washington.edu">rsiler@u.washington.edu</A></P><P style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Helvetica"><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></P> </DIV><BR></BODY></HTML>