squeakland November 2008

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Squeakfest 2009
by Marta Voelcker 23 Dec '08

23 Dec '08

Hello everybody, This is Marta from Porto Alegre - Brazil. It is time to continue to plan and decide things about Squeakfest 2009. My colleagues and I have been talking and we are enthusiastic to hold a gathering in Porto Alegre on July 23rd to 25th ( Thursday to Saturday). Another International Conference about IT for Ed - WCCE -world conference in computers for education is going to take place near Porto Alegre in the following week - July 27th to 31st. We thought that some of the people coming for Squeakfest would get interested in attending WCCE and vice versa. Please visit their website - <http://www.wcce2009.org> www.wcce2009.org. I think this conference is very relevant to our community. It is still possible to submit papers if you are interested! The deadline is December 31st. The Squeakfest would be a gathering for teachers, educators and school coordinators -- a time for Etoy fun and a general get together. We will certainly plan for the participation of some researchers and students as well, but the goal of the conference would be for participants to share how they are using Etoys, or plan to use it, share ideas, experiences, material and strengthen Etoy community bonds. We would also welcome teachers and reps from OLPC schools from Latin America and the Caribbean and if possible, from other countries. Wouldnt it be awesome?! Children from Luciana de Abreu School would certainly attend, present their Etoy projects and, as they are used to doing at conferences, take pictures and interview you guys with their XOs! What do you think about it? Let me know your ideas Is the time of the year good for you? Do you know this WCCE? ( Ive never hear about it before! Isnt it a huge coincidence?! We have been considering Squeakfest 2009 in Porto Alegre since Jan, and then this WCCE is going to be hold in here too?! ) Well enough questions for just one email!!!! I hope to hear from you during the weekend! All the best, Marta Voelcker

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Read about Squeak (in Spanish)
by Kim Rose 12 Dec '08

12 Dec '08

Passing this along to our Spanish speaking friends, Kim Begin forwarded message: > > > Linux Magazine (Spain) usually publishes articles about Squeak. > These articles, past some moths, are free for all people by > Internet. You can read them (if you understand Spanish, of course), > at: > > Squeak, ¿la herramienta que hará la revolución educativa?. JUAN > RAFAEL FERNÁNDEZ GARCÍA : http://www.linux-magazine.es/issue/16/ > Educacion.pdf > > Squeak, la herramienta de los niños. Esto es lo que hay. JUAN > RAFAEL FERNÁNDEZ GARCÍA: http://www.linux-magazine.es/issue/17/ > Educacion.pdf > > Squeak, la herramienta de los niños. ¿Un juicio justo?. JUAN RAFAEL > FERNÁNDEZ GARCÍA: http://www.linux-magazine.es/issue/18/Educacion.pdf > > Física y Squeak. Gravedad y caída libre en un laboratorio virtual. > ANA MARÍA PIZARRO: http://www.linux-magazine.es/issue/ > 27/074-076_SqueakLM27.crop.pdf > > Scratch, una herramienta lúdica de iniciación a la programación. > MÁXIMO PRUDENCIO: http://www.linux-magazine.es/issue/ > 28/078-082_ScratchLM28.crop.pdf > > De viaje con Squeak. Los alumnos crean sus propias aplicaciones > interactivas. DANIEL SANCHO EHLERT: http://www.linux-magazine.es/ > issue/29/080-083_EducacionLM29.crop.pdf > > De Gutemberg a Sophie. Reinventando la escritura en la era digital. > El futuro de la lectura y la escritura. MÁXIMO PRUDENCIO: http:// > www.linux-magazine.es/issue/30/079-083_EducacionLM30.crop.pdf > > Unas palabras mágicas. Programación basada en la semiótica de los > cómics. MÁXIMO PRUDENCIO: http://www.linux-magazine.es/issue/ > 34/079-082_MagicWordsLM34.crop.pdf > > Ratón musical. Música con Squeak. DANIEL SANCHO EHLERT: http:// > www.linux-magazine.es/issue/35/081-084_EducacionLM35.crop.pdf > > Calculadora educativa. Simulación de la Texas Instrument Little > Professor. DANIEL SANCHO EHLERT: http://www.linux-magazine.es/issue/ > 37/077-080_EducacionLM37.pdf > > Pitágoras y Squeak. Longitúdes. Ángulos. El teorema de Pitágoras. > ENRIQUE MOLINER: http://www.linux-magazine.es/issue/ > 38/079-082_EducacionLM38.pdf > > Items about Squeak published in Linux Magazine Squeak, ¿la > herramienta que hará la revolución educativa?. JUAN RAFAEL > FERNÁNDEZ GARCÍA : http://www.linux-magazine.es/issue/16/Educacion.pdf > > Squeak, la herramienta de los niños. Esto es lo que hay. JUAN > RAFAEL FERNÁNDEZ GARCÍA: http://www.linux-magazine.es/issue/17/ > Educacion.pdf > > Squeak, la herramienta de los niños. ¿Un juicio justo?. JUAN RAFAEL > FERNÁNDEZ GARCÍA: http://www.linux-magazine.es/issue/18/Educacion.pdf > > Física y Squeak. Gravedad y caída libre en un laboratorio virtual. > ANA MARÍA PIZARRO: http://www.linux-magazine.es/issue/ > 27/074-076_SqueakLM27.crop.pdf > > Scratch, una herramienta lúdica de iniciación a la programación. > MÁXIMO PRUDENCIO: http://www.linux-magazine.es/issue/ > 28/078-082_ScratchLM28.crop.pdf > > De viaje con Squeak. Los alumnos crean sus propias aplicaciones > interactivas. DANIEL SANCHO EHLERT: http://www.linux-magazine.es/ > issue/29/080-083_EducacionLM29.crop.pdf > > De Gutemberg a Sophie. Reinventando la escritura en la era digital. > El futuro de la lectura y la escritura. MÁXIMO PRUDENCIO: http:// > www.linux-magazine.es/issue/30/079-083_EducacionLM30.crop.pdf > > Unas palabras mágicas. Programación basada en la semiótica de los > cómics. MÁXIMO PRUDENCIO: http://www.linux-magazine.es/issue/ > 34/079-082_MagicWordsLM34.crop.pdf > > Ratón musical. Música con Squeak. DANIEL SANCHO EHLERT: http:// > www.linux-magazine.es/issue/35/081-084_EducacionLM35.crop.pdf > > Calculadora educativa. Simulación de la Texas Instrument Little > Professor. DANIEL SANCHO EHLERT: http://www.linux-magazine.es/issue/ > 37/077-080_EducacionLM37.pdf > > Pitágoras y Squeak. Longitúdes. Ángulos. El teorema de Pitágoras. > ENRIQUE MOLINER: http://www.linux-magazine.es/issue/ > 38/079-082_EducacionLM38.pdf > > Articles published by Linux for release: > > Squeak Polar. La hoja de cálculo Skeleton y la representación > gráfica de curvas. ENRIQUE MOLINER. > > Memorice. Diviértete poniendo a prueba tu memoria. MÁXIMO PRUDENCIO > > Regards, > Máximo Prudencio. > > > >

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40th Anniversary of the Dynabook
by Brad Fuller 06 Dec '08

06 Dec '08

All, Alan, Chuck, Mary Lou and Steve did a fabulous job at the Computer History Museum's program last night. Insightful and educational as always. Alan, will you make your Squeak project available for us to review? I noticed that they were videotaping, so I assume the video will be available on the CHM youtube channel: http://www.youtube.com/computerhistory Thanks to all that made it possible! best, brad

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Cannot see the tiles in a script
by Young-Jin Lee 25 Nov '08

25 Nov '08

Dear List, For some reason, I cannot see the tiles in a script that I created. Normally, if I pull out a script tile from the Scripts category in the viewer, I get to see the tiles inside the script . But, I have a script that does not show the tiles when I pull it from the viewer because it remains as a single tile showing only the name of the script, not the contents of the script. Since I cannot see the contents of the script, I cannot modify it. Can any one explain why I got this problem and how to solve it? Thanks in advance. Young-Jin

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Squeak for code::XtremeApps 2009 contest in Singapore
by Harish Pillay 9v1hp 24 Nov '08

24 Nov '08

Dear List - Hi. I would like to reach out to all on this list to see how best I can run a programming contest for children 12 years and below. I am on the organizing committee of a programming contest called code::XtremeApps. It comprises two categories - a Junior Category for those 12 and below, and an open category for everyone on the net. We are going to run the 3rd iteration of the contest next year (you can see the 2008 details at http://www.itsc.org.sg/codeXtremeApps2008.html). For the 2009 run, I am planning on using Squeak for the junior cat - the 2008 contest used Alice. The contest is to be held in the June period (which is in the middle of school year here in Singapore). I would appreciate pointers and suggestions on using squeak for programming contest and perhaps even lessons learned. Thanks. -- Harish Pillay h.pillay(a)ieee.org gpg id: 746809E3 fingerprint: F7F5 5CCD 25B9 FC25 303E 3DA2 0F80 27DB 7468 09E3

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Information about Extensions
by Raphael 20 Nov '08

20 Nov '08

Hi all, I have been playing with eToys for about 2 weeks, and it's possible that i use it in my monograph for college. So, i was thinking, is it possible to create extensions of it? How can i do that?Please help. Thank you very much. -- Raphael

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[seaBreeze-mailinglist] Porting to Squeak
by Emilio Oca 12 Nov '08

12 Nov '08

Hi Magnus, I am interested on this issue but as I have no previous experience on porting something that should be maintained at both ends, and I am pretty ignorant on web issues; I just started to use it on VW for a while. But I'll be glad to help. The "ifNotNil: [:p | p doSomething] should have no parameters" is a known issue, discussed several times on the squeak list, let me search a bit. I think that SmaCC works ok on squeak. It shouldn't be any problem using the Squeak Smacc port. The underscore char is used instead of := , so is an illegal char at the beginning of a method. But I think there is a configurable preference on this. I am cross posting to the squeak list, may be more help is available there. Looking the way the seaside packages are maintained for inter-dialect portability may be a good idea. Cheers. Emilio - Hide quoted text - On 11/12/08, Magnus Schwarz <magnus(a)heeg.de> wrote: > As nobody from the Squeak community did it by now and Gerhard Obermann > "complained" ;) that there is no Monticello version of seaBreeze I > decided to give it a try and port seaBreeze to Squeak. > > Main Problem was/is that I am used to work with Visualworks and Squeak > is somewhat different ;) > > I managed to load a lot of stuff into a Pier one-click image (decided to > use this because it should have the Seaside stuff already loaded) but > ran into some obstacles where an experienced Squeaker might help me: > > - I had many methods using "ifNotNil: [:p | p doSomething]" where Squeak > complained that the block should have no parameters - I changed the > implementation in Squeak so that it should work but it still complained > (and did not compile) > - The CSSParser was built with SmaCC which generates lots of methods > with underscores in it; now Squeak complains about the underscores but I > do not really understand what the problem is > > Biggest problem seemed to be the use of SXOR - we might make porting > much easier by deciding to drop this and use LiteralArrays (or whatever) > in seaBreeze ... > > Magnus > > -- > Magnus Schwarz * certified Scrum Master / Smalltalk architect * mailto:magnus.schwarz@heeg.de > phone:+49 231 97599-0 * fax:+49 231 97599-20

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