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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