Where the Squeak Books are being adopted
Alan Kay
Alan.Kay at squeakland.org
Fri Jan 25 15:08:58 UTC 2002
Craig --
This is really interesting. I hope you will be able to tell us more
about how this all worked. I want to do something similar in the Fall
both at the University of Kyoto, and from UCLA to the University of
Kyoto via a high-speed link.
Cheers,
Alan
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At 12:54 PM -0800 1/24/02, Craig Latta wrote:
> > 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.
>
> That was me. :) I taught CS377B at Stanford in the autumn quarter
>("Dynamic Multimedia with Squeak"). It was a lot of fun! I didn't
>mention it here much because it was the first offering and I was
>swamped. :) I look forward to doing a full brain dump about it sometime
>soon.
>
> One interesting thing was the format of the class... we all sat around
>a table with networked machines (there were fewer than 35 of us :), and
>hung out in Nebraska. The lectures were all multi-way active essays;
>pretty chaotic at first, but it settled down into a good rhythm.
>Assignments were all turned in by dropping Projects on my badge, no
>files at all, very nice (after we got it working :).
>
> I hope to come to the MM-in-CSEd workshop, if I can get funding
>together!
>
>
>-C
>
>--
>Craig Latta
>composer and computer scientist
>craig.latta at netjam.org
>www.netjam.org
>crl at watson.ibm.com
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