[Newbies] I've just introduced some 9th graders to Squeak
Hello. This is my first post to the beginners list. I've been a perpetual beginner since I first found out about Squeak over ten years ago ( can it really be that long ? at least somewhere at the beginning of ver. 1.x ) . Anyway, I'm not a programmer, I'm a musician and an explorer, and currently, a substitute teacher - teaching 9th graders (gifted ones at that) computer skills. Today I introduced them to Squeak ! It went really well. First I talked about smalltalk, had them type in the Transcript show: 'Hello World'. program in a workspace, and I'm sure that bored them plenty. But I did not miss a beat. I next introduced them to the morphs - the bouncing atoms and the blobs , etc.. and they were HOOKED ! 80 Kids now know about Squeak. Now what ? What should I do with Squeak and my 9th graders that will thrill them further ? Ideas ? Thanks ! Russ Van Rooy http://www.myspace.com/russvr ___ Beginners mailing list Beginners@lists.squeakfoundation.org http://lists.squeakfoundation.org/mailman/listinfo/beginners
Re: [Newbies] I've just introduced some 9th graders to Squeak
Russ wrote: Hello. This is my first post to the beginners list. I've been a perpetual beginner since I first found out about Squeak over ten years ago ( can it really be that long ? at least somewhere at the beginning of ver. 1.x ) . Anyway, I'm not a programmer, I'm a musician and an explorer, and currently, a substitute teacher - teaching 9th graders (gifted ones at that) computer skills. Today I introduced them to Squeak ! It went really well. First I talked about smalltalk, had them type in the Transcript show: 'Hello World'. program in a workspace, and I'm sure that bored them plenty. But I did not miss a beat. I next introduced them to the morphs - the bouncing atoms and the blobs , etc.. and they were HOOKED ! 80 Kids now know about Squeak. Now what ? What should I do with Squeak and my 9th graders that will thrill them further ? Ideas ? What do you want to teach them? That could provide us with more direction to help. Some ideas: * Have you looked at the projects on squeakland.org? * Although it's a bit young for 9th graders, have you looked at the book Powerful Ideas in the Classroom by B.J. Allen-Conn and Kim Rose? * Check out this video: future_software_development_series.kay-alan.lecture.2003-04-24.102656947.wmv at this location: http://ftp.squeak.org/Media/AlanKay/ Go to near the end and see Alan's demo of what other kids have done in squeak. It's a bit more advanced than the book, so it might fit in better for their age. -- brad fuller www.bradfuller.com ___ Beginners mailing list Beginners@lists.squeakfoundation.org http://lists.squeakfoundation.org/mailman/listinfo/beginners
RE: [Newbies] I've just introduced some 9th graders to Squeak
You might want to look at Scratch too. Scratch is written in Squeak. Although it is not intended to teach programming in Smalltalk or Squeak, it does teach general programming concepts very well. Plus it's really fun! http://weeklysqueak.wordpress.com/2007/01/23/scratching-the-surface/ Ron Teitelbaum -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:beginners- [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Brad Fuller Sent: Thursday, January 25, 2007 11:34 AM To: A friendly place to get answers to even the most basic questions aboutSqueak. Subject: Re: [Newbies] I've just introduced some 9th graders to Squeak Russ wrote: Hello. This is my first post to the beginners list. I've been a perpetual beginner since I first found out about Squeak over ten years ago ( can it really be that long ? at least somewhere at the beginning of ver. 1.x ) . Anyway, I'm not a programmer, I'm a musician and an explorer, and currently, a substitute teacher - teaching 9th graders (gifted ones at that) computer skills. Today I introduced them to Squeak ! It went really well. First I talked about smalltalk, had them type in the Transcript show: 'Hello World'. program in a workspace, and I'm sure that bored them plenty. But I did not miss a beat. I next introduced them to the morphs - the bouncing atoms and the blobs , etc.. and they were HOOKED ! 80 Kids now know about Squeak. Now what ? What should I do with Squeak and my 9th graders that will thrill them further ? Ideas ? What do you want to teach them? That could provide us with more direction to help. Some ideas: * Have you looked at the projects on squeakland.org? * Although it's a bit young for 9th graders, have you looked at the book Powerful Ideas in the Classroom by B.J. Allen-Conn and Kim Rose? * Check out this video: future_software_development_series.kay-alan.lecture.2003-04- 24.102656947.wmv at this location: http://ftp.squeak.org/Media/AlanKay/ Go to near the end and see Alan's demo of what other kids have done in squeak. It's a bit more advanced than the book, so it might fit in better for their age. -- brad fuller www.bradfuller.com ___ Beginners mailing list Beginners@lists.squeakfoundation.org http://lists.squeakfoundation.org/mailman/listinfo/beginners ___ Beginners mailing list Beginners@lists.squeakfoundation.org http://lists.squeakfoundation.org/mailman/listinfo/beginners
Re: [Newbies] I've just introduced some 9th graders to Squeak
On 1/25/07, Russ [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello. This is my first post to the beginners list. I've been a perpetual beginner since I first found out about Squeak over ten years ago ( can it really be that long ? at least somewhere at the beginning of ver. 1.x ) . Anyway, I'm not a programmer, I'm a musician and an explorer, and currently, a substitute teacher - teaching 9th graders (gifted ones at that) computer Now what ? What should I do with Squeak and my 9th graders that will thrill them further ? Ideas ? Hi Russ - This French page has many interesting projects: http://www.ofset.org:8000/super/gallery I think it might give you some ideas/inspiration. In addition to that, I think it promotes cultural values (learning from people of a foreign country has intrinsic value - and it may boost the morale of the 9th graders taking French as a second language). My 2 cents... Cheers. Henry Lenzi ___ Beginners mailing list Beginners@lists.squeakfoundation.org http://lists.squeakfoundation.org/mailman/listinfo/beginners
Re: Re-2: [Newbies] Stef, BotsInc problem...
I often wish Squeak worked that way by default. Too many times I've kicked off a doit that ran for too long, then began to wonder what it was doing, but the UI was frozen. This is also true of fileins, etc. I would strongly support an effort to do much less work in the UI thread and a clean feedback mechanism for displaying progress and killing/suspending/debugging runaway items. On Jan 24, 2007, at 7:39 PM, Ned Konz wrote: So the approach that he took was to fork each script and arrange for the UI to be updated from time to time as the individual scripts are running. ___ Beginners mailing list Beginners@lists.squeakfoundation.org http://lists.squeakfoundation.org/mailman/listinfo/beginners
[Newbies] Translating Morphic/Squeak
Hi What is the best way to translate Morphic? How about squeak in general? Thanks, JP ___ Beginners mailing list Beginners@lists.squeakfoundation.org http://lists.squeakfoundation.org/mailman/listinfo/beginners
