squeakland December 2005

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Squeak Etoys and preschoolers
by Leonel Morgado 25 Apr '06

25 Apr '06

Hi, I'm interested on computer programming experiences with children aged 3, 4 and 5. I was unable to find documented cases of Etoys use in this age group, but expect that there should be at least a few user stories. If anyone has reports, photos, or even just recollections of such cases, I would love to hear about them! Inté, Leonel Morgado

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The Weekly Squeak No.17: December 11th - December 17th
by Giovanni Corriga 28 Dec '05

28 Dec '05

Dear squeakers, Hello, and welcome back to the The Weekly Squeak, a weekly report on what's going on in the world of Squeak. Another issue of The Weekly Squeak out of the door, and yet again we're slowly reducing the lateness in publication. We hope you'll enjoy this latest installment! In this issue you'll find: 1. ShoreComponents for Seaside 2.6 2. Squeak 3.9a is on fire! 3. Some questions about Seaside's architecture 4. A hosting by the Seaside 5. An explanation of SqueakMap caching 6. SqueakSource Update 1.3 7. Live Seaside Tutorial 8. New versions of ODBC 9. Graphics in JavaScript 10. Internship Position &at Douai 11. A new Spoon-ful 12. Upcoming Squeak Chats You'll find the complete report at http://minnow.cc.gatech.edu/squeak/5740 . The past issues archive can be found at http://minnow.cc.gatech.edu/squeak/5751 . The Weekly Squeak has an RSS feed: http://people.squeakfoundation.org/person/gcorriga/rss.xml .

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Question: Squeak in DC metro area
by Louise Michaud 27 Dec '05

27 Dec '05

Are there any teachers in the DC/Northern Virginia area that are using Squeak in their classroom? I am a middle school computer teacher and I would like to observe Squeak in action. Thanks, Lulu --------------------------------- Yahoo! Shopping Find Great Deals on Holiday Gifts at Yahoo! Shopping

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reflection symmetry - again
by Randy Heiland 26 Dec '05

26 Dec '05

In anticipation of some upcoming Squeak-related projects, I return once again to the issue of wanting to perform a reflection symmetry: http://squeakland.org/pipermail/squeakland/2005-February/002396.html I see that this is still an unresolved feature in eToys, i.e., the flip left-right rotationstyle disregards the position of the sketch's "rotation center" and simply flips the sketch in-place. Tweak, however, does what I want (see attached images). Here, once again, I wish I was capable of doing Squeak/eToys development and could simply go look at/modify the code base to make this happen. But for now I'm still at the mercy of all you wonderful developers and ask "can you mimic the turn/rotate Tweak code in eToys?" --Randy

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The Weekly Squeak No.16: December 4th - December 10th
by Giovanni Corriga 26 Dec '05

26 Dec '05

Dear squeakers, Hello, and welcome back to the The Weekly Squeak, a weekly report on what's going on in the world of Squeak. We're fashionably late, but we're finally here with a brand new issue of The Weekly Squeak. This latest issue has a good number of news items, and also sports the latest installment of SqueakViews, in which Giovanni Giorgi meets our favourite Dutch hacker, Cees De Groot. Enjoy! In this issue you'll find: 1. November Team Reports 2. Magma and Seaside integration support 3. Trouble with the mailing lists 4. A Pier sample application 5. A Magma server with web management console 6. ComSwiki 1.5 released 7. SqueakLight status update 8. Feedback from a Squeakland workshop 9. SqueakSource server image 10. A Squeak image repository 11. What does Squeak development look like? 12. A new test server 13. New SqueakSource repository for Magritte and Pier 14. Mantis vs. mailing list: the eternal struggle 15. Problems with the MediaView browser port 16. Upcoming Squeak Chats 17. SqueakViews: an interview with Cees De Groot You'll find the complete report at http://minnow.cc.gatech.edu/squeak/5740 . The past issues archive can be found at http://minnow.cc.gatech.edu/squeak/5751 . The Weekly Squeak has an RSS feed: http://people.squeakfoundation.org/person/gcorriga/rss.xml .

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Re: [Squeakland] NetMorph and siblings
by Randy Heiland 22 Dec '05

22 Dec '05

Thanks for clarifying. I was indeed using the 'tell all siblings', as is commonly the case. Therefore, I will look forward to the next version! --Randy > -----Original Message----- > From: Masashi Umezawa [mailto:umejava@mars.dti.ne.jp] > Sent: Wednesday, December 21, 2005 9:40 PM > To: Randy Heiland; squeakland(a)squeakland.org > Subject: Re: [Squeakland] NetMorph and siblings > > Hello, > > NetMorph basically supports siblings. > > In a simple case like this, it works with no problems: > > 1: draw a sketch > 2: attach a warpable script to the morph (by guruguru warp menu) > 3: make siblings by the duplicate handle (with shift-down) > 4: drag morphs to the adjoining edge of the desktop > 5: siblings go to the remote desktop. > > However, currently NetMorph catch sibling relationship in a local machine > only (as a normal e-toy image). > > So, if you try to start a distributed morphs' script by using 'start all' > or 'tell all siblings', only local sibling morphs can start the script. > Remote siblings never receive the request. > > I think NetMorph should search for siblings not only local image but also > all connected images. This will be supported in the next version. > > Best regards, > > P.S. I'll attend C5 and perform a NetMorph demo. > > "Randy Heiland" <heiland(a)indiana.edu> wrote: > > I finally got around to downloading/playing with NetMorph. Maybe I'll > > eventually post a web page of some of my initial experiments, but one > thing > > I was hoping is that it would allow for siblings. However, it doesn't > seem > > to handle siblings - e.g., when the main sketch enters an adjoining > > computer, but its siblings remain behind. Can someone confirm/clarify > this? > > > > Thanks, Randy > > > --- > [:masashi | ^umezawa]

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The Weekly Squeak No.15: November 27th - December 3rd
by Giovanni Corriga 20 Dec '05

20 Dec '05

Dear squeakers, Hello, and welcome back to the The Weekly Squeak, a weekly report on what's going on in the world of Squeak. Real life has exacted its toll on the News Team members, keeping them from working on newszine. We're trying to recover, though: the next issue will actually be acceptably late (10 days! ;-P) In this issue you'll find: 1. Persistence for lazy people 2. A forensic tool for dead images 3. Squeak Map changes and upgrades 4. Installing the latest HV 5. Some notes on Squeak's UI 6. Don't forget your updates 7. Singletons in Squeak 8. Stable Smallwiki1 source on Squeaksource 9. Upcoming Squeak Chats You'll find the complete report at http://minnow.cc.gatech.edu/squeak/5740 . The past issues archive can be found at http://minnow.cc.gatech.edu/squeak/5751 . The Weekly Squeak has an RSS feed: http://people.squeakfoundation.org/person/gcorriga/rss.xml .

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Re: [Squeakland] multiple authors?
by Bob Irving 15 Dec '05

15 Dec '05

Thanks again for your response, Alan. What my students want to do is work on the same project at the same time. They sit next to each other during class. I'm curious about how the Nebraska server works. Well, actually, I'm not that interested in the technical details, but I would love to see it work and be "safe" (that is, no lost work). FYI, we are using XP on a Novell network behind a firewall. I will play around with it, but I haven't had any success with the badge system in the past. Any tips or tricks would be most welcome. Thanks again, Bob Irving Middle School Technology Facilitator Lancaster Country Day School Lancaster, PA Blog: www.e-lcds.org/wordpress/ "It is not necessary to change. Survival is not mandatory." W. Edward Deming

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Fwd: Re: Fwd: "Open Viewer" Error in Squeak-Alice
by Kim Rose 14 Dec '05

14 Dec '05

Dear Ikem, Alice is not part of the "Squeakland" release; you might want to query the Squeak.org/Squeak-Dev mailing list to seek further information. -- Kim >> >> >> >>>To: squeakland(a)squeakland.org >>>From: Ikem Nzeribe <ikem.star(a)gmail.com> >>>Date: Fri, 9 Dec 2005 14:38:49 +0000 >>>Subject: [Squeakland] "Open Viewer" Error in Squeak-Alice >>>X-BeenThere: squeakland(a)squeakland.org >>>List-Id: Squeakland Discussion Forum <squeakland.squeakland.org> >>>List-Unsubscribe: <http://squeakland.org/mailman/listinfo/squeakland>, >>> <mailto:squeakland-request@squeakland.org?subject=unsubscribe> >>>List-Archive: <http://squeakland.org/pipermail/squeakland> >>>List-Post: <mailto:squeakland@squeakland.org> >>>List-Help: <mailto:squeakland-request@squeakland.org?subject=help> >>>List-Subscribe: <http://squeakland.org/mailman/listinfo/squeakland>, >>> <mailto:squeakland-request@squeakland.org?subject=subscribe> >>>Sender: squeakland-bounces(a)squeakland.org >>> >>>Hi. I'm trying to explore Alice in Squeak, using the "3d fishbowl" >>>tutorial (by Diego Gomez Deck). >>>When I try to open the Viewer for my newly created 3d-fish, I get >>>a "MessageNotUnderstood: WonderlandActor" error. >>>Now, I'm sure this is not supposed to happen, lol. Is there any >>>way to solve this? I'm new here... thanks for your collective >>>genius. >>> >>>Ikem. >>>_______________________________________________ >>>Squeakland mailing list >>>Squeakland(a)squeakland.org >>>http://squeakland.org/mailman/listinfo/squeakland

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Re: [Squeakland] multiple authors?
by Bob Irving 14 Dec '05

14 Dec '05

This is what I love about the open source community! I get a response from Alan Kay, the creator of Squeak! Awesome. Actually, though, my two students are using eToys, not the Squeak language. They are 8th graders. However, they seem to be bumping up against the limits of the eToys environment and yesterday I showed them the code "underneath the hood" to try to solve a problem. We'll see if they are ready to move on to coding. But I guess that there really isn't a way in eToys to do shared development and versioning. It's not crucial: a nice-to-have rather than a must-have. Thanks again! Bob Irving Middle School Technology Facilitator Lancaster Country Day School Lancaster, PA Blog: www.e-lcds.org/wordpress/ "It is not necessary to change. Survival is not mandatory." W. Edward Deming

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