Trying again, yesterday I sent this from my Gmail account and it didn't reach you, the developers. The ed team has a copy and Richo and Steve sent notes saying they liked the ideas. The attachments are just drafts.
Hi, I have been following the conversations about the new version of Etoys, but I do not have a good grasp of what will be included nor how some it can be used. Still, I want to help and the attachments are two possibilities.
Would a book be a good way to show all of the new features in one place? It would not add to the Quick Guides and would be highly visible. It could also have a section of bug fixes or improvements.
One good thing about using a book would be, when the next version is introduced, that the blue cloud could read Etoys 6 and lead to a book for those features while the Etoys 5's book now could become of of the projects in the Gallery.
I would be glad work with everyone to make a book like the attached draft if you would provide projects and explanations.
The screen print attachment shows a way to introduce new things from the opening world.
Balloon help that is consistent with the balloon help in this version is a good idea. Kathleen
The list of changes and fixes is quite long :-) I see 402 commits to the Etoys repository in my mailbox.
I'm not sure all are so interesting that have to be featured, but quite a few are.
Now we just need to compile the list of all the changes...
Karl
On Sun, Feb 12, 2012 at 2:12 PM, Harness, Kathleen kharness@illinois.edu wrote:
Trying again, yesterday I sent this from my Gmail account and it didn't reach you, the developers. The ed team has a copy and Richo and Steve sent notes saying they liked the ideas. The attachments are just drafts.
Hi, I have been following the conversations about the new version of Etoys, but I do not have a good grasp of what will be included nor how some it can be used. Still, I want to help and the attachments are two possibilities.
Would a book be a good way to show all of the new features in one place? It would not add to the Quick Guides and would be highly visible. It could also have a section of bug fixes or improvements.
One good thing about using a book would be, when the next version is introduced, that the blue cloud could read Etoys 6 and lead to a book for those features while the Etoys 5's book now could become of of the projects in the Gallery.
I would be glad work with everyone to make a book like the attached draft if you would provide projects and explanations.
The screen print attachment shows a way to introduce new things from the opening world.
Balloon help that is consistent with the balloon help in this version is a good idea. Kathleen
etoys-dev mailing list etoys-dev@squeakland.org http://lists.squeakland.org/mailman/listinfo/etoys-dev
The not complete list of changes is here
http://etoys.squeak.org/svn/trunk/Etoys/NEWS
Karl
On Mon, Feb 13, 2012 at 7:49 PM, karl ramberg karlramberg@gmail.com wrote:
The list of changes and fixes is quite long :-) I see 402 commits to the Etoys repository in my mailbox.
I'm not sure all are so interesting that have to be featured, but quite a few are.
Now we just need to compile the list of all the changes...
Karl
On Sun, Feb 12, 2012 at 2:12 PM, Harness, Kathleen kharness@illinois.edu wrote:
Trying again, yesterday I sent this from my Gmail account and it didn't reach you, the developers. The ed team has a copy and Richo and Steve sent notes saying they liked the ideas. The attachments are just drafts.
Hi, I have been following the conversations about the new version of Etoys, but I do not have a good grasp of what will be included nor how some it can be used. Still, I want to help and the attachments are two possibilities.
Would a book be a good way to show all of the new features in one place? It would not add to the Quick Guides and would be highly visible. It could also have a section of bug fixes or improvements.
One good thing about using a book would be, when the next version is introduced, that the blue cloud could read Etoys 6 and lead to a book for those features while the Etoys 5's book now could become of of the projects in the Gallery.
I would be glad work with everyone to make a book like the attached draft if you would provide projects and explanations.
The screen print attachment shows a way to introduce new things from the opening world.
Balloon help that is consistent with the balloon help in this version is a good idea. Kathleen
etoys-dev mailing list etoys-dev@squeakland.org http://lists.squeakland.org/mailman/listinfo/etoys-dev
etoys-dev@lists.squeakfoundation.org