Hi, I am glad you are taking an active interest in Etoys. The Floss manuals are always a work in progress.
I read your comments to the lists and enjoy thinking about your point of view. The attachment is my view of Etoys in response to your question: "Am I right in thinking that it is meant to provide a greatly restricted programming environment on the surface, where only a few Squeak/Smalltalk objects and methods are available without going behind the scenes, chosen for younger children?"
For me as a teacher, Etoys is a great way to interest children who might not otherwise know the power they can have over the computer. The difference in being an author of a program and being a user of a program is enormous. For me as an author, Etoys lets me express ideas I could not share any other way. Regards, Kathleen ________________________________________ From: squeakland-bounces@squeakland.org [squeakland-bounces@squeakland.org] on behalf of mokurai@earthtreasury.org [mokurai@earthtreasury.org] Sent: Friday, September 07, 2012 8:47 PM To: squeakland.org mailing list Subject: [squeakland] World menu
I have discovered by trying many combinations that alt-shift-w brings up the World menu in Etoys on Ubuntu. I have added that and some other information to
http://booki.flossmanuals.net/etoys-reference-manual/_edit/
and I am about to add the keyboard shortcuts for the XO. (I have two of them, which I have named Thing1 and Thing2.)...First pass, done now.
Apparently I now know how to apply all that I know of Squeak (not a lot, but increasing) within Etoys, by bringing up menus that allow me to bring up everything else.
Is there a design document for Etoys explaining what its intention is? Am I right in thinking that it is meant to provide a greatly restricted programming environment on the surface, where only a few Squeak/Smalltalk objects and methods are available without going behind the scenes, chosen for younger children?
-- Edward Mokurai (默雷/निशब्दगर्ज/نشبدگرج) Cherlin Silent Thunder is my name, and Children are my nation. The Cosmos is my dwelling place, the Truth my destination. http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Replacing_Textbooks
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