[squeak-dev] Hello, World!

David O'Toole deeteeoh1138 at gmail.com
Wed Jan 5 19:43:26 UTC 2022


That sounds entertaining!

On Wed, Jan 5, 2022 at 2:35 PM tim Rowledge <tim at rowledge.org> wrote:

> This sounds like a subject for one of the Smalltalk Meetups
>
> > On 2022-01-05, at 11:32 AM, David O'Toole <deeteeoh1138 at gmail.com>
> wrote:
> >
> > Yes, Sandblocks is kind of like Scratch on steroids, a complete visual
> Smalltalk. You can even switch individual System Browser windows back and
> forth between text view and blocks view. It works properly even with big
> fat methods and lots of literals, like when structured data are embedded in
> a method.
> >
> > If I understand this correctly, Jens Moenig's "Elements" project was
> striving for a minimal grammar with the fewest number of block constructs,
> and is quite impressive in this respect; whereas the visual grammar in
> Sandblocks more closely matches full Smalltalk (even extending the language
> in some places.) It is a seeming evolution of the quest to find a happy
> marriage between blocks programming and power-user environments that are
> highly inhabitable and teachable. I'll be writing up more thoughts soon,
> possibly a screencast or two to illustrate what's going on.
> >
> > I'd be happy to discuss Sandblocks further, reach out if you like.
> > And thanks again for the warm welcomes, all of you :)
> > Take care.
> >
> > On Wed, Jan 5, 2022 at 2:20 PM tim Rowledge <tim at rowledge.org> wrote:
> > Hi David; glad you made it here from Twitter :-)
> >
> > I hadn't heard of the SandBlocks thing. That looks like an interesting
> evolution of the Scratch programming editor.
> >
> > > On 2022-01-05, at 7:12 AM, David O'Toole <deeteeoh1138 at gmail.com>
> wrote:
> > >
> > > http://wiki.squeak.org/squeak/6658
> >
> > tim
> > --
> > tim Rowledge; tim at rowledge.org; http://www.rowledge.org/tim
> > Useful Latin Phrases:- Non curo. Si metrum non habet, non est poema = I
> don't care. If it doesn't rhyme, it isn't a poem.
> >
> >
> >
> >
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> tim
> --
> tim Rowledge; tim at rowledge.org; http://www.rowledge.org/tim
> Shift to the left!  Shift to the right!  Pop up, push down, byte, byte,
> byte!
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