StarSqueak (was: Bongo a Java for kids)
ajbn at cin.ufpe.br
ajbn at cin.ufpe.br
Tue Jul 31 12:06:12 UTC 2001
Folks,
...and another book about StarLogo is comming according with Amazon.com -
Adventures in Modeling: Exploring Complex, Dynamics Systems with StarLogo - by
Vanessa Colella, Eric Klopfer and Mitch Resnick.
I am waiting StarSqueak to have a lot of fun with it too ;)
Cheers,
Antonio Barros
> John.Maloney at disney.com wrote:
> Anyone who's interested in simulations, especially simulations of
> biological systems, will find Mitchel's book:
>
> Turtles, Termites, and Traffic Jams:
> Explorations in Massively Parallel Microworlds
> (MIT Press, 1994)
>
> fascinating reading. After reading it, I just couldn't keep myself
> from implementing the core ideas in Squeak. I'd say the performance
> of the Java version says a lot about what's wrong with Java. The Mac
> version of StarLogo was written in Lisp, I believe, and it's quite
> fast.
>
> Let me second that. StarLogo is fun, and it's plenty fast enough, but
> the ideas in the book are even better.
>
>
>
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