Hi Christian --

The Squeak Projects can be saved to your server. This is what most 
elementary school children do.

OTOH, there is nothing cheaper than disk space. And personal computing was 
invented about 30 years ago. Why not try to at least give them as much disk 
space as they need, and individual laptops would be even better (since much 
of the best student work will be done outside of the classroom).

(a gentle i.e. ... it is now 2004 ....)

Cheers,

Alan

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At 04:56 AM 9/11/2004, Christian Mascher wrote:
>Dear squeakers,
>
>I'm quite new to smalltalk/squeak myself but think smalltalk is an 
>attractive tool for introducing some core OOP-concepts to high-school students.
>
>Now I am wondering how I should go about installing the software in our 
>network setting, where we have a class of windows client computers 
>connected to a Linux (Samba) server.
>
>For a first look at smalltalk I put the VM (windows.exe), sources, image 
>and changes file on a server directory (Linux-Samba-share), where it can 
>be started by everybody allright. This directory is (of course ?) not 
>publically writeable, so no changes can be saved (and squeak starts with a 
>notice complaining about that...). Still, for some first experiments with 
>message sends etc. this is usable.
>
>Later on, students will want to save their changes. What are my options?
>
>Putting the four files locally in a directory on every windows client 
>computer seems natural, but would not work, because the local drives are 
>write-protected, too. (At least after rebooting the old setup is 
>restored.) We instruct the students to save their private data into their 
>private home-directory on the server because of this.
>
>Putting all four files into every individual students home-directory would 
>obviously work, but then I would have to give them much more disk space, 
>which I feel should not be necessary, as the bulk of the image and the 
>.exe-file are the same for everybody.
>
>I would like to find a way, where saving remains a simple task, and where 
>possibly only the individual changes of the students have to be saved in 
>their home-directory.
>
>Any helpful ideas are greatly appreciated,
>
>Christian Mascher
>
>