Dear Squeakers,

welcome to the The Weekly Squeak Summary, a weekly report on what's going on in the world of Squeak based on the Weekly Squeak blog.

There have only been two news items during last week, which I will briefly summarise.

1. Ah Ha!! - http://weeklysqueak.wordpress.com/2006/11/07/ah-ha/

This article, originally a post on the Squeak beginners mailing list, gives an overview of the basic principles behind Smalltalk, and details how and why they are so useful. In particular, the principles mentioned are the syntactic pattern "object message", the fact that user code can go everywhere in the system, and the core features of polymorphism and inheritance.

2. Scratch! - http://weeklysqueak.wordpress.com/2006/11/08/scratch/

An outcome of the work at the MIT Media Lab, Scratch is a programming language for interactive media design. A beta release is freely available, an official release has been announced for later this year.

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Happy squeaking,

Michael