Peter Coad has added color to objects models in an attempt to up the information density. although i didn't experience an immediate "ah ha!", my interest was sufficiently piqued that i though i'd pass this on to the squeak list. you can find the first in a series of writeups at:
http://www.oi.com/coad-letter-archive/51
is anyone working on a modeling tool for squeak?
dave
-- j. david farber oo architect+mentor numenor labs incorporated in sunny boulder colorado dfarber@numenor.com www.numenor.com
David Farber wrote:
Peter Coad has added color to objects models in an attempt to up the information density. although i didn't experience an immediate "ah ha!", my interest was sufficiently piqued that i though i'd pass this on to the squeak list. you can find the first in a series of writeups at:
http://www.oi.com/coad-letter-archive/51
is anyone working on a modeling tool for squeak?
Yup, I'm working on porting Snowball to Squeak and I have seen that letter earlier today. I was already experimenting with colors as well as giving the ability to the user to represent any object with any icon he or she wishes. About a time-line: I don't know. It may be a while.
dave
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is anyone working on a modeling tool for squeak?
I think that there are a couple of projects on doing modeling tools in Squeak.
Noel Rappin (noel@cc.gatech.edu) has built a tool that generates Squeak code that he used with my students for the last academic year, called BOOST (http://www.cc.gatech.edu/gvu/people/student/Noel.Rappin.html#BOOST). I just read his dissertation chapter on his BOOST results yesterday, and it's pretty impressive. He got students to make pretty dramatic changes in their modeling process (e.g., he actually got students to design BEFORE coding, which is an amazing (and measurable!) change for CS sophomores!)) and improvements in their understanding of O-O models. BOOST is freely available off his website. (It's written in Java, though he said he'd probably do Squeak next time :-)
Mark
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