On Mon, 13 Nov 2006, Offray Vladimir Luna Cárdenas wrote:
I'm not claiming that this is the ideal way to transition from e-toy tile-scripting to full-scale Smalltalk, if that's what your goal is -- indeed, it may lead to false expectations; I just wanted to make sure you're aware of the availability of these two ways of blending tile-scripting with writing unrestricted Smalltalk code. It would be interesting to hear of experiences people have had with this kind of hybrid approach.
Yep, the idea is some kind of transition from e-toy tile-scripting to Smalltalk (may be not full scale yet, but with the idea of that scale in some moment of the process). I have bought the book "Squeak: learning with robots" from Steffane, because of its pedagogical advantages providing the robots as a way to "see" the effect of code (loops, conditionals, etc.), but others will come to Squeak from eToys and Bookmorphs (for interactive educational material), so making a bridge between them and Smalltalk would be a nice path to follow. I will keep you informed on the process of this approach ... and bothered with the questions it raise ;-)
Hi Offray,
At the moment I'm following a similar approach with a class of 11th-graders - starting with eToys and trying to find a way down to smalltalk. I'm learning quite a lot from your questions, thx.
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