Hi,
I'm a maths teacher (and ex software engineer), and have been playing with the developer version of Squeak for a while now, and although the learning curve is fairly steep, I am using it successfully in school.
I see that the Squeakland release is recommended for teachers over the squeak.org version, I guess because etoys have been made to work nicely. However, I am experiencing severe frustration in getting it to run. What is the security model?
Here's the problem. On WinXP, I install it as administrator. As soon as I try to run as a normal user, it fails ("a primitive has failed", although the error message is in German). I think this is because I cannot write to the image file, quite rightly, since it is owned by the administrator, and as a normal user I could not be trusted not to muck it up.
So I copied the image file into my own directory, and ran the Squeakland vm on it, but it fails with the same error. Can anyone help?
I'm a little discouraged, as I'm wondering how I will persuade much less technically oriented colleagues in school that Squeak is useful for teaching if the installation is a black art. I am sure my mode of use must be the most common among school users of Squeak. Could it not be supported by the default install?
cheers, Simon