[Squeakland] Lack of documentation frustrating

[Offray Vladimir Luna Cárdenas]

Hi all,

The French Wiki is a valuable source of information, and effectively 
using Translate from google I have been able to use this resource for 
understanding things on animation or multiagent simulation (Kedama). I 
have seen another wiki doc with spanish documentation at small-land (but 
seems fairly unmaintained) and we're trying to create a Colombian 
spanish squeakers community using a wiki. You can see our efforts at:

http://www.el-directorio.org/CategorySqueak

It's a page about all the pages on Squeak in a bigger wiki 
(documentation, personal pages, blog post, etc.).

One of the bad things in the traditional educative structures is that 
students never become part of a bigger community, so they just made 
things inside the classroom, for not any other purposes that making the 
homework. I have found that making them part of a community can give a 
lot of sense to the learning process and, at the same time, can solve 
many of the documentation problems, because the squeaker community is a 
friendly one, and almost always ask soon about the questions not solved 
in the docs.

Cheers,

Offray


Hilaire Fernandes escribió:
> Alan Kay a écrit :
>   
>> Hi --
>>
>> Yep, we should have more complete documentation in English, especially 
>> on the media objects. (E.g. the Japanese and Spanish documentation 
>> includes translations of ours, plus some very good stuff done in those 
>> languages in those countries.)
>>     
>
> The French Squeak community has quite an important documentation corpus 
> for the EToys use.
>
> http://community.ofset.org/wiki/Squeak_Education
>
> For a full list of documents related to Squeak use in education, see 
> directly look at:
>
> http://community.ofset.org/wiki/Category:Squeak_Education
>
> A lot of these documents are step by step tutorials to produce specific 
> EToys project. Also most of the time the related Etoys .pr projects can 
> be downloaded directly in your plug-in.
> With one of the on-line translation tool as the Google's one, you may be 
> able to get most of these articles in English.
> Hilaire Fernandes
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