[Squeakland] Hello all !

Ned Konz ned at bike-nomad.com
Tue May 13 19:00:49 PDT 2003


Greetings everyone,

I've just joined the Squeakland list.

I'm not exactly new to Squeak (I post a lot on the Squeak-dev list), 
but I haven't done much with educational applications of Squeak.

I'm going to be playing with a few things in the near future that 
might interest you:

* I'm going to publish a new version of the SARInstaller for 3.2 that 
will let you load a variety of projects that are available on 
SqueakMap. In particular, I'm doing this because there has been some 
interest in using my Connectors package in the Squeakland environment 
(which is based on a 3.2 image). Connectors lets you make connected 
drawings using any Morphs; the connections will follow the Morphs as 
they are moved around. I've used the Squeakland plugin and the 
Project Pages feature of the Comanche ComSwiki 1.2 to make live 
shareable drawings in a Swiki. It works great, and is lots of fun.

* I will probably add some kind of gesture recognition to the eToys 
system. I think I'll make it so you can make a script run when a 
particular pen/tablet/mouse gesture has been drawn starting at a 
Morph that uses that Player. I've been working with Nathanael Schärli 
(who wrote the Genie gesture recognition system that's in Squeak) and 
we've made a number of improvements.

* I'm interested in adding eToys support to my Connectors to let 
people learn about (for instance) graph algorithms using live 
drawings. At least, I'd add a vocabulary that would let you query and 
modify the Morphs at either end of a Connector, as well as to let 
Morphs report their incoming and outgoing connections. I may make 
these sets of connections work like Holders of some sort, I'm not 
sure (I'm not really sure how to handle the cursor and display of 
these).

* I'd also like to come up with a version of eToys that is scriptable 
using some combination of statecharts and tile scripting.

Anyhow, I'm pretty new to this, and if you have any interest in any of 
these, or any ideas, let's discuss them!

Thanks,
-- 
Ned Konz
http://bike-nomad.com
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