Someone suggested that I share this experience: I recently had a 5 minute "what I do for a living" presentation at my daughter's preschool. I'm a programmer and heard about Squeak through another mailing list where I had asked for suggestions on what I should do to explain my job. I loved the program and showed it to my daughter as soon as I could. She's only 4 but she liked the animations that the kids had done on the site. I did about a two minute demo of a simple hand-drawn bunny and mouse that bounced, moved in a line, moved in a circle around the screen and they loved it. I was a little worried with how impressed they would be considering the level of animation in today's video games but they didn't seem to care. When I have time, I'd love to learn more about how to program some more complex things. It's even fun for adults!
Thanks, Jen
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