squeakland April 2006

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SqueakFest '06 - Please submit your proposals by April 30th!
by Kim Rose 21 Apr '06

21 Apr '06

Hello -- A reminder that submissions for proposals for presentations and workshops at SqueakFest are due by April 30th. The online form and other information on SqueakFest can be found here: http://interactive.colum.edu/partners/squeakfest/ Seymour Papert will give the keynote address on July 20th. Please share with friends and colleagues by passing around the SqueakFest url. And, remember, this year we can afford small number of travel stipends to presenters that request early... See you in Chicago! -- Kim

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Squeakland Forum at Nabble
by Bert Freudenberg 13 Apr '06

13 Apr '06

Hi all, I just noticed there is a new web forum that can be used to read (and post to) this mailing list: http://www.nabble.com/SqueakLand-f14187.html which appears to be a bit nicer than the one at GMANE: http://dir.gmane.org/gmane.comp.lang.smalltalk.squeak.squeakland - Bert -

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Re: [Squeakland] Squeak in China
by Xinyu Liu 11 Apr '06

11 Apr '06

Dear Liang, Glad to hear from you. Yes, as you said, there are some difficulty today in China. The commercial defacto standards, the terrible job market, all drove the student dive in the same things, They even don't know whether they like it or not. But it is a good thing to widen their sight, isn't it? Squeak is a fresh spring rain. It is not only a kind of programming language just extend from classic smalltalk. In my understanding, there are 2 parts in squeak: 1. a system(or a platform) for the deeper squeaker, students, hackers, programmers or scientists. 2. a "playground" or an "instruments", it is a tool for the kids in all ages to play, to learn, to understand the world, to express their ideas. The first part focus on functions(just like hardware) while the second one focus on education and play(just like software). I believe the latter one is the real power of sqeak, stronger than any existing systems, Neither Java nor dotNet has this ability. However, in order to let more Chinese people know this truth, our computer techicians must take the responsibility of creating a Chinese localized Squeak! I think we can do it with the help from Squeak community. Do you agree with me? Finally, I hope I can join the Squeak China mail list, would you like to help me? I also have a plan to translate some Squeak and smalltalk related books to Chinese. Best regards. Yours, Liu On 4/11/06, Liang Peng <pliangeng(a)gmail.com> wrote: > > Hello, Stef and All, > > I am Liang Peng, a lecturer in CS department, Wuhan University, major in > Software Engineering. > Actually, we maintain a chinese squeak mailing list for squeak and > smalltalk > related discussion since two years ago, > Squeak-cn(a)lists.squeakfoundation.org > but not too much discussion and activity so far, because of the small > number > of squeak user community in China although we can offer them free books > and > CDs. > Java, C#, VS, Eclipse is still the hotest toys for students, as you may > understand in China. > But if you like, I can try my best to offer you the information and help i > can make. > > best regards. > > -- > Liang Peng >

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Squeak in China
by Louise Michaud 10 Apr '06

10 Apr '06

I am a middle school computer teacher at SMIC Private School in Shanghai. I teach for the English track. My grade 7 students (ages 11-12) have been learning with Squeak for the past few months. If you are in Shanghai, I would be very interested in having a Squeak user group. Louise Michaud At 10:33 PM +0800 4/6/06, Xinyu Liu wrote: >Hi, > >I am a programmer come from China. From a friend I got to know about >squeakland. >I think it is really a great thing. It can help kids in all ages >learn something while playing. >However, when I search squeakland materials in Chinese by Google, I >found that there >is little Chinese information about it, nor a Chinese community. > >So, I decide to translate some basic background of squeakland to >Chinese language. >I just tried a couple of pages in <http://www.squeakland.org> >www.squeakland.org. But I used some images, pictures, >and links from <http://www.squeakland.org>www.squeakland.org. Is it >OK? Can you give me a permission that I can >use them? I just want to continue this work, to try my personnal >best to introduce squeak >to China, to let more and more chinese people know about it. --------------------------------- Talk is cheap. Use Yahoo! Messenger to make PC-to-Phone calls. Great rates starting at 1¢/min.

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[ANN] New microworld + Extra chapters for the BotsInc environment
by stéphane ducasse 08 Apr '06

08 Apr '06

Hi all, I'm currently migrating to the newest release of BotsInc environment the second microworld that was initially planned to be described in the book. For now I published on my web site http://smallwiki.unibe.ch/botsinc/ download/ an old image that you can use with the current environment (just drop the .image file on the squeak executable). Pay attention that this is an old version (prior to the distribution 02-2005). This old image that works on any platforms. I also released some advanced drafts of chapters describing this microworld and also some really fun chapters for BotsInc. I hope to find some money to ask a professional to proofread them. For now they are given for free as they are. I plan to give them for free in the future too. Stef PS: you can get more about BotsInc at: http://smallwiki.unibe.ch/botsinc/ BotsInc is the environment of the book Squeak: Learn Programming with Robots I wrote over the last 4 years. With Bots Inc you will learn how to program robots in an interactive environment. Bots Inc proposes three teaching approaches: direct command of robots, scripting robots and programming robots. The book contains 24 chapters going step by step over topics with a lot of examples. Bots Inc is fun but it is not a toy, it teaches you 100% real programming. Bots Inc is built on top of the rich open-source multimedia Squeak environment that you can also discover. "if you knew today was your last day on earth, what would you do different? ... especially if, by doing something different, today might not be your last day on earth" Calvin&Hobbes

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Interactive geometry and mosaic
by Hilaire Fernandes 07 Apr '06

07 Apr '06

Hello all, Here is another small demonstration about interactive geometry within Squeak. This demo shows the use of some planar transformations: the central symmetry and the translation are used to build step by step part of the mosaic. It also helps to show the relation between the composed symmetries and the translation. What I love is the ability within Squeak to mix, at any time, external tools as the PaintBrush or the Etoys ones to verify some ideas or hypothesis. This really help to improve the pedagogical efficiency of the interactive geometry tool, which I found are, in other platform, to much rigid in term of pedagogical exploration capabilities. I am sorry this demonstration is in French only, but the videos are easy to understand and figure out. http://www.univ-savoie.fr/Portail/Groupes/fernandes/demos/4-mosaique/index.… Hilaire Fernandes

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Call for Presenters! SqueakFest '06 - July 19-21
by Kim Rose 06 Apr '06

06 Apr '06

Dear Squeaklanders, The SqueakFest '06 website has just gone live: http://interactive.colum.edu/partners/squeakfest/ (Also linked from the Squeakland.org homepage.) We will continue to add to it as details become developed, but this is *the site* for SqueakFest '06 info and news. Please find the "Call for Presenters" via that page. We ask those of you wishing to present to submit this online form as soon as possible. Presentations can be in the form of hands-on workshops, lecture-style presentations or panel sessions. This year, thanks to support from Motorola, DiamondCluster, Columbia College, Chicago, Viewpoints Research and others, registration fees will be *waived* for presenters. In addition, this year we have funds to provide some travel scholarships/stipends ($500.00) to presenters requiring travel assistance. Travel stipends will awarded based on circumstance and time of submission of proposals (i.e, first requests considered first). Submissions for presentations are due by April 30th as we need ample time to review, notify those acccepted, create the program, etc., etc. Online registration will be open in the next few weeks, please check again. Please share this announcement with friends and colleagues you know that might be interested in presenting their experiences, research, projects, ideas. Also please share the url with anyone you know that might wish to attend! We look forward to seeing you in Chicago, in July. regards, Kim Rose, Wade Roberts, Neil Pagano, Carol Ann Stowe

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