Dan & Rodney: O.K., now, just as I was salivating over the potential usefulness and joy of using Squeak, Rodney comes along and throws water all over me. Which is it? Who is right? I haven't yet had time to look at the actual Squeak language, but I did see that incredibly direct and simple "kids" example of using Squeak over at SqueakLand, or is it SmallTalkLand? EToys. And then there is the integration of all the functionality that the Alice environment offered, brought over into SqueakLand, or whatever it is called. Is it all too good to be really true?
My initial impressions of this environment were that it teaches new users, even kids, to apprehend, to comprehend the concepts involved in programming, so that, after those things are grasped, then the cryptic programming terminology can be introduced which, if those are introduced first, confuses the heck out of anyone wanting to learn to program. Even if a programming language is English-like, what is needed beyond and prior to learning lines of "code" is really understanding sequences of events and why they need to be in the order that they need to be in to get the machine to respond properly. Right? Greg Smith -- View this message in context: http://www.nabble.com/Dependence-on-Programming-Experts-tf1893108.html#a5194878 Sent from the Revolution - User forum at Nabble.com. _______________________________________________ use-revolution mailing list [email protected] Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution
