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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