[Squeakland] Help for getting BotsInc on ODLP

[Offray Vladimir Luna Cárdenas]

Hi Stéphane,

What you're telling is music to my ears. I have been advocating 
something like this in the eToys OLPC mailing list and in this way to 
have a laptop which grows with the kids, starting with eToys, passing to 
Bots Inc and going to Smalltalk after that. This is the way that me and 
my students of first semester are using and is working very nice. At 
this moment we're going to start to use Monticello for some collective 
project, and would be nice to know how to open Monticello and use from 
Bots Inc, or use Bot Inc from some image.

I have been trying to load Bots Inc on Squeakland 3.8-05 #552 but I 
can't get Monticello working on it (I get the errors in the attached files).

Here are some links of the work with my students:

http://www.eduwiki.info/BotsInc
http://www.eduwiki.info/MazeSquad/construirPuente/Historial
http://www.eduwiki.info/MazeSquad2/ConstruccionLaberinto
http://www.eduwiki.info/CarlosJaramillo/Botsinc/Cap23

Is nice to hear that some chapters of the book will be free. Using your 
book here is a real help, but most of students can't pay for it, and 
having just a copy for the all group is really uncomfortable (we're an 
small group of 10 and I have ask it to the Mathematics Department but 
we're out of budget for this semester). A creative commons license with 
free distribution and the possibility to create derived works like 
translations would be really nice.

Thanks for all your help.

Cheers,

Offray

stéphane ducasse escribió:
> Hi all
>
> I was discussing with Bert about getting botsinc running on ODLP. The  
> environment is really small
> it is 17 classes. And this would be great to have an environment to  
> teach Smalltalk on it. Apparently Bert told me that Alan
> would be interested and that I should send an email to this mailing- 
> list. So this is what I'm doing.
>
> Now I need help. I have a bug when I put a self halt in the method  
> that is executed. Ned told me that
> it could be easily fixed but right now I have no time and I got  
> already burnt in the pas with concurrency and morphic.
> So I would like to know if somebody is interested in helping me.
>
> square
> 	"self square"
> 	self north.
> 	self go: 200.
> 	self halt.
> 	self east.
> 	self go: 200.
>
> Does not stop the bot and its animation. (I have an older version not  
> based on the rewrite that Ned did for me
> but based on morphic wrapper that is working correctly but I would  
> prefer to use the last one since I developed further and
> it is in sync with the book).
>
> I was working on a better history of commands. Now there is also a  
> problem of how to save script.
> I proposed to save categories but may be we need something better  
> than that.
>
> I'm working on releasing extra chapters (with Lsystem and other).
> I'm working also on releasing another micro world with a robot  
> (looking like Karel with really fun exercises).
> These extras chapters will be freely available. But all that takes time.
>
> On a 3.8 image
>
> On SqueakMap load shout.4 (this is not necessary and we can remove it  
> after, it just gives a better feedback on errors).
>
> MCHttpRepository
>      location: 'http://www.squeaksource.com/BotIncPica'
>      user: ''
>      password: ''
>
> BotIncPica-Ned-sd.44.mcz
>
> Under help -> reinstall full menu
>
>
> Stef
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