Alan,

Thanks a lot for your quick reply.
My best,

Antonio Barros
Informatics Center
Federal University of Pernambuco
Brazil

--- In squeak at yahoogroups.com, Alan Kay <Alan.Kay at s...> wrote:
> This particular strand starting with one of the projects I saw in 
the 
> CDROM "Thinking Things" (I think it was the 3rd in the set). This 
> project was basically about being able to march around a football 
> field and the multiple marchers were controlled by a very simple 
tile 
> based programming system. Also, a grad student from a number of 
years 
> ago, Mike Travers, did a really excellent thesis at MIT about 
enduser 
> programming of autonomous agents -- the system was called AGAR -- 
and 
> many of these ideas were used in the Vivarium project at Apple 15 
> years ago. The thesis version of AGAR used DnD tiles to make 
programs 
> in Mike's very powerful system.
> 
> The etoys originated as a design I did to make a nice constructive 
> environment for the internet -- the Disney Family.com site -- in 
> which small projects could make by parents and kids working 
together. 
> SqC made the etoys ideas work, and Kim Rose and teacher BJ Conn 
> decided to see how they would work in a classroom. I thought the 
> etoys lacked too many features to be really good in a classroom, 
but 
> I was wrong. The small number of features and the ease of use 
turned 
> out to be real virtues.
> 
> We've been friends with Randy Pausch for a long time and have had a 
> number of outstanding interns from his group at CMU over the years. 
> For example, Jeff Pierce (now a prof at GaTech) did SqueakAlice 
> working with Andreas Raab to tie it to Andreas' Balloon3D. Randy's 
> group got interested in the etoys tile scripting and did a very 
nice 
> variant (it's rather different from etoys, and maybe better).
> 
> Cheers,
> 
> Alan
> 
> At 8:57 PM -0300 5/8/03, ajbn at c... wrote:
> >Folks,
> >
> >I have been trying the new version of Alice <www.alice.org>. It 
also uses
> >tile programming like Etoys.Just for curiosity, does anyone know 
the 
> >history of Tile Programming?
> >TIA,
> >
> >Antonio Barros
> >PhD Student
> >Informatics Center
> >Federal University of Pernambuco
> >Brazil
> 
> 
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