[Squeakland] presentations / slide shows.

Alan Kay alan.kay at squeakland.org
Thu May 17 16:26:33 PDT 2007


Hi Benedict --

Yes, all of the "slides" (they were actually Squeak/Etoys projects) 
were completely done in Squeak (I think only using the Etoys part of 
the environment).

Cheers,

Alan

At 01:10 PM 5/17/2007, Benedict Kavanagh wrote:
>Hello all,
>
>I work on Linux. I know smalltalk reasonably well. I don't know the
>Squeak 2D Apis. I am interested in using Squeak as a platform to develop
>more engaging slideshow presentations. My talks are normally about
>formal  methods in programming language semantics. I'm tired of the
>tedium of slides produced by beamer.
>
>I saw the keynote by Alan Kay in 2004 at OOPSLA.  I want to make
>presentations like that.  Can anyone confirm that the slides for that
>talk were written in Squeak?
>
>The Sophie project is a close fit for what I want. I was just wondering
>if there was any other work written  in Squeak that I could look at that
>relates to my goal.  In particular I would be interested in any
>presentations/slide shows that were written in Squeak as one-offs to see
>roughly how much is required for a  'from scratch'  slide show as I
>generally prefer to sit on top of my own code when possible.
>
>Is there a FAQ about this topic?
>
>Cheers,
>Ben
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