[Newbies] I've just introduced some 9th graders to Squeak

2007-01-25 Thread Russ
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

Re: [Newbies] I've just introduced some 9th graders to Squeak

2007-01-25 Thread Brad Fuller
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

RE: [Newbies] I've just introduced some 9th graders to Squeak

2007-01-25 Thread Ron Teitelbaum
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

Re: [Newbies] I've just introduced some 9th graders to Squeak

2007-01-25 Thread Henry Lenzi
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,

Re: Re-2: [Newbies] Stef, BotsInc problem...

2007-01-25 Thread Todd Blanchard
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

[Newbies] Translating Morphic/Squeak

2007-01-25 Thread Jens Pall
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