Teaching Image

Alexandre Bergel bergel at asterix.unibe.ch
Wed Mar 12 11:47:23 UTC 2003


Hello Jimmie,

Perhaps you whould look at: http://scgwiki.iam.unibe.ch:8080/StephaneDucasseWiki/4

and http://scgwiki.iam.unibe.ch:8080/TurtleGallery (in French)

It describes an environment for learning OO programming to children.

Cheers,
Alexandre

On Tue, Mar 11, 2003 at 09:55:36AM -0600, Jimmie Houchin wrote:
> With all of the discussion of Documentation and Teaching of Squeak, I 
> had this thought. I don't know if it had been expressed before, so I 
> thought I would toss it out into the forum. :)
> 
> As Squeak gets refactored and get broken down into its various parts it 
> would be nice to see something along the lines of a Squeak Teaching Image.
> Kernel -> Core -> Teaching Image
> 
> People could use the 'base', 'kitchensink' (or whatever name) image for 
> browsing, exploring and plain having fun. But it would be nice for 
> teaching or learning purposes if there were an image or a package on SM 
> for creating such an environment. This environment could be tightly 
> focused on teaching/learning Squeak.
> 
> Once someone has mastered or at least reached a sufficient level of 
> competence in the Teaching/Learning environment they could proceed to 
> take those skills into the larger areas of Squeak.
> 
> Maybe there could be an area on SqueakMap for such endeavors?
> 
> It would be nice also to see some of the SqueakLand, Etoys, 
> SuperHyperCard, etc. packaged up for SM.
> 
> Just some thoughts, just in case its a slow day on the list. ;)
> 
> Jimmie Houchin
> 

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