<div dir="ltr"><div><div>It would be cool to have a simplified Workspace like scripting environment for starting users. Maybe a scoped browser.</div></div><div><br></div><div>I have used various tile scripting systems and find that text is much superior when making anything more than simple toy projects. </div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div>Karl</div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, Nov 17, 2015 at 9:33 PM, tim Rowledge <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:tim@rowledge.org" target="_blank">tim@rowledge.org</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><span class=""><br>
> On 17-11-2015, at 12:05 PM, marcel.taeumel <<a href="mailto:Marcel.Taeumel@hpi.de">Marcel.Taeumel@hpi.de</a>> wrote:<br>
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> Squeak got PhidgetLab :)<br>
> <a href="http://www.hpi.uni-potsdam.de/hirschfeld/projects/phidgetlab/" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">http://www.hpi.uni-potsdam.de/hirschfeld/projects/phidgetlab/</a><br>
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</span>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)<br>
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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<br>
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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 :-)<br>
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tim Rowledge; <a href="mailto:tim@rowledge.org">tim@rowledge.org</a>; <a href="http://www.rowledge.org/tim" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">http://www.rowledge.org/tim</a><br>
</span>Useful random insult:- Thinks everyone else is entitled to his opinion, like it or not.<br>
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