[Squeak-fr] Why you should use Squeak to write educational application

[stéphane ducasse]

Hilaire

C'est vraiment sympa.
DrGeo commence a voir le jour. C'est super. Avec Squeak3.9 tu auras  
un gain en vitesse pour les morphs.
Tiens nous au courant de tes progres.

Stef

On 4 sept. 05, at 15:27, Hilaire Fernandes wrote:

> Hello,
>
> I have made some initial research on Squeak to use it as development
> plateform for educational applications.
> As a test drive I have written the foundation of a Squeak DrGeo[1]
> player, an interactive geometry software of mine on Linux. I have
> written the player so that it can interact with the other Squeak  
> objects.
>
> I am still in the experimental phase of my research but I want to  
> share
> with you this small video
> http://documentation.ofset.org/drgeo/videos/drgeo-squeak.avi (need  
> xvid
> codec) which illustrate the wonderfull aspect of object thinking  
> within
> Squeak.
> In the video, you will notice that the integration of usual Squeak
> objects in a DrGeo drawable is something you get for free !!
>
> At this stage my conclusion is that Squeak is a perfect tool for
> teachers willing to write edu oriented software, the main reasons are:
> -a very advanced IDE (emacs&vi looks like prehistoric artefacts, don't
> beat me I am a Emacs user)
> -the simple and uniform Smalltalk language
> -an important multimedia class library ready to be **easily** used and
> merged in your applicaton classes
> -it is multiplateform
>
> Hilaire
>
>
> [1] http://www.ofset.org/drgeo
>
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