[Squeakland] Who is this list mainly intended for?

[Kim Rose]

Hi, Shelagh -

Welcome!  I saw Tim Andrews already sent you a wonderful response, 
but I wanted to add my "welcome" and let you know that many 
home-educating parents are also "listening" and participating here. 
You're in the right place.  And, yes, the list can also be a resource 
for kids using Squeak, too!

The majority of participants in this list are 
"less-than-hacker-level" programmers and many are novices, so we are 
(mostly) using the "Etoy" part of Squeak -- the "tile based" 
interface allowing kids and adults an "entry" into the ideas of 
object oriented programming and more to their interest, generally, 
project making, model making, and simulation building.  Having some 
knowledge with Smalltalk is wonderful, however, but not necessary. 
I'm delighted you picked up that "discard" from your 
library...welcome to "Squeakland" and please feel free to use us as a 
resource.

If you haven't seen, we do offer some online tutorials, a printed 
glossary and "Etoy Quickstart Guide" to get started and in the "media 
section" of the squeakland.org site there is a DVD and book available 
for additional resource.
cheers
Kim

PS - How old is your eldest son???


>Hello,
>I just joined this list today and have been briefly scanning old 
>maessages (or aleast those from last month). Is this list for 
>children using squeak, or for those who hope to help those learning 
>squeak?
>
>I am a home educating parent who stumbled across the concept of 
>small talk in a throw out book from our local library. I was 
>interested enough to search for it on google and came up with squeak 
>eventually. My edest son has aspirations to learning C++. And I 
>thought smalltalk sounded like a good place to get your head around 
>the concept of Oops. We used to use MSWLogo, but while I liked it a 
>lot, my son disdained it as being too uncool or maybe just not 
>commercially relevant.
>
>Hear form you soon, Shelagh
>
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