Tamika --

You are welcome. Thanks for being the catalyst for some badly needed 
and long overdue documentation ....

Please check out the swiki tutorial several times a day for the next 
4 or 5 days.

Cheers,

Alan

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At 8:55 AM -0400 10/16/01, Knox, Tamika wrote:
>	Alan, we absolutely appreciate you going out of your way for us!
>This is absolutely terrific! We have a presentation update tomorrow in
>class. The three of us will dive into everything you have prepared and we
>promise to keep you updated on our progress.
>
>	I sincerely thank you!
>
>	-Tamika
>	---------------
>
>>  Message: 2
>>  Date: Mon, 15 Oct 2001 18:36:04 -0800
>>  To: squeak-dev at lists.squeakfoundation.org
>>  From: Alan Kay <Alan.Kay at squeakland.org>
>>  Subject: Re: I'm a beginner who has never used Squeak. Please Help.
>>  Reply-To: squeak-dev at lists.squeakfoundation.org
>>
>>  Tamika --
>>
>>  I have put the first pass at your tutorial on one of our swiki
>>  servers. As usual, the project turned out to be a lot easier to
>>  actually make than documenting it in enough detail to be useful! So I
>>  have quite a bit more writing to be done.  Also, I have to upload a
>>  lot more screen shots for the writing that has been done. I can see
>>  that this will take a few days. By contrast, the bare bones of the
>>  project took about 3 hours to do (of which about 2 hours was making
>>  and playing with the animated character).
>>
>>  However, there is enough there to get started (I hope).
>>
>>  Here is the URL: http://squeakland.org:8080/super/200
>>
>>  I did the entire project just using telephone rates (26K baud most of
>>  the time). Both Squeak and the swiki server performed really well.
>>  The main map is the biggest bottleneck at low data rates, but still
>>  is possible.
>>
>>  I would like to invite others in the Squeak list who are interested
>>  in the problems of documentation, etc., to participate. For example,
>>  it would nice for Tamika and her classmates to easily use Luciano's
>>  speech synthesis stuff for their animated character. Maybe Mark
>>  Guzdial and his colleagues at Georgia Tech can tell us about some of
>>  their experiments with etoys and other parts of Squeak.
>>
>>  Also, there are probably some very good documentation pages already
>>  done in this area that could be crossreferenced in the "Tamika
>>  Tutorial".
>>
>>  Tomorrow I will get another little stretch in the early morning to
>>  document how I made the animated world character, and also, I should
>>  publish my version of this project at some point. (Maybe not right
>>  away in order to test the usefulness of the tutorial).
>>
>>  Cheers,
>>
>>  Alan
>>
>>  -----
>>
>>


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