[Challenge]

Ivan Tomek ivan.tomek at acadiau.ca
Thu Jun 12 12:27:53 UTC 2003


Yes! But perhaps one can start with something more manageable :-)

Ivan 

> -----Original Message-----
> From: tblanchard at mac.com [mailto:tblanchard at mac.com]
> Sent: Thursday, June 12, 2003 12:45 AM
> To: The general-purpose Squeak developers list
> Subject: Re: [Challenge]
> 
> 
> Hmmm.  With a name like silicon chalk, I expected to see 
> something more 
> like this:
> 
> http://oxygen.lcs.mit.edu/videos/sketching.mpeg
> 
> which would be a very cool  thing to have in squeak indeed.
> (warning - the download is long but quite cool).
> 
> On Wednesday, June 11, 2003, at 01:12  PM, Ivan Tomek wrote:
> 
> > Hi,
> >
> > I have just seen a demo of Silicon Chalk (see
> > http://www.siliconchalk.com/index.htm). It's a lecture (voice, any
> > application, etc.) recording, 
> > question-and-answer/polling/note-taking/etc.
> > supporting tool that, to me, is the first educational 
> application that 
> > has a
> > chance of growing and becoming useful.
> >
> > Its main limitations are that it
> >
> > - is restricted to Windows
> > - is not open source, making it, in my opinion, impossible 
> to keep up 
> > with
> > possible extensions, customizations, etc.
> > - is written in C++
> >
> > It seems to me that this is a perfect application area for 
> those who 
> > might
> > want to try to apply Squeak's features and create a 'killer 
> > application'
> > proving its worth. I do not volunteer to implement it :( 
> but there may 
> > be
> > some volunteers or students waiting for challenging 
> projects or theses 
> > that
> > might make it really desirable for people to learn, use, 
> and advance 
> > Squeak.
> >
> > Ivan
> >
> 
> 



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