Where the Squeak Books are being adopted
Mark Guzdial
guzdial at cc.gatech.edu
Thu Jan 24 18:18:29 UTC 2002
There's been a discussion on the Squeak Foundation list about where
Squeak is being taught in universities. One sampling of that is
where the White and NuBlue Squeak books are being adopted, and I just
got that report today for Summer and Fall 2001 sales. Thought that
y'all might be interested, so here are some of the highlights. These
are sales to educational institutions of 20 or more books, with US
universities highlighted, and international universities hidden
behind purchases by Pearson distribution centers. (Pearson owns
Prentice-Hall.)
White Book (Textbook): Georgia Tech, Portland State, San Diego State,
and U. Washington are all buying class-size bunches of the White
book. There are various sales to distribution centers, like Borders,
Amazon.com, and Barnes & Noble. Something I was surprised at was the
167 copies bought by Pearson Education in Singapore. That's in
contrast to the 25 copies to Japan, 159 to Canada, 25 to Hong Kong,
and 20 copies to Australia. Are there a lot of Squeakers in
Singapore? Pearson England bought a whopping 756 copies of the White
book -- perhaps there are some classes in the UK teaching Squeak?
NuBlue Book: The only university buying a bunch of the NuBlue book is
Stanford, who bought 35 of them -- that sounds more like a class, and
less like the bookstore is buying a couple to have on the shelf.
Again, Pearsons in Singapore ordered quite a few: 86 copies. The
NuBlue book is popular outside the US, too: 117 in Canada, 264 in
England, 20 in Hong Kong, and 25 in Japan. (None to Australia, as of
this report ending 01 Sept. 2001.)
Other than Stanford, we're not seeing many of the top US
universities, but these are promising numbers, and it's interesting
the large number of non-US purchases. I suspect that Smalltalk is
more popular in academic research outside of the US than in, so it
makes sense that Squeak would be popular there.
Mark
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