squeak tutorials, etc.

tblanchard at mac.com tblanchard at mac.com
Fri Jul 11 01:57:14 UTC 2003


Oh, this is something I've always wanted  to ask - so the squeakland VM 
is pretty much the same as the squeak vm (although packaged as a 
plugin) - its only the base image thats really different - so I could 
run a regular squeak 3.5 image with the squeakland vm and should have 
no troubles with it?


On Thursday, July 10, 2003, at 03:27  PM, Andreas Raab wrote:

> Hi Nancy,
>
> The main difference of the two versions is the target audience. The
> Squeakland.org plugin image is aimed at educators, people who work 
> mostly in
> the eToys domain. The Squeak.org image is aimed at Smalltalk system
> developers. The major differences between the two are that the 
> Squeakland
> plugin image is much smaller (since it does not include a number of 
> things
> which are in the Squeak developers image, such as the VM source code 
> and
> similar) and that the UI has been set to what we think is more user 
> friendly
> for someone who hasn't compiled her own Linux kernel ;-)
>
> Other than that the two are equivalent.
>
> Cheers,
>   - Andreas
>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: squeak-dev-bounces at lists.squeakfoundation.org
>> [mailto:squeak-dev-bounces at lists.squeakfoundation.org] On
>> Behalf Of Nancy Head
>> Sent: Thursday, July 10, 2003 10:48 PM
>> To: Alan Kay
>> Cc: Squeakland; general-purpose Squeak developers list
>> Subject: RE: squeak tutorials, etc.
>>
>>
>>
>> This week I'm filling out a request to have squeak loaded on
>> computers. I
>> need better clarification of the differences between the
>> "full" squeak vs.
>> the "plugin" squeak so that I can be sure I have what I need,
>> even though
>> I'm only just beginning to become familiar with the tools myself.
>>
>> Can I get clarification on the capabilities of the plugin
>> squeakland vs.
>> development squeak versions?
>>
>> Thanks,
>>
>> Nancy
>>
>>
>>> I had a roomful of middle school boys in a computer club
>> last year who
>>> wanted to create a game. Squeak may be an appropriate tool
>> for them to use.
>>
>> It should be. Many 4-8th graders all over the world have made their
>> own games in Squeak etoys.
>>
>>
>
>



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