The Weekly Squeak

The Weekly Squeak

  • Feeding the Mouse some Pi

    Tim Rowledge announced: Squeak 4.0 & 4.4 packages now available for RISC OS (on Raspberry Pi for example) at http://squeakvm.org/riscos

  • Pythagoras Animation in Etoys

    From Bert: I like a slightly different proof even better, because it doesn’t need to rotate the shapes:

  • Powerful Ideas

    Casey mentioned: Speaking of Pythagoras, Alan Kay demos a visual proof for the theorem that’s super easy for just about anyone to understand right away using Etoys in his TED talk, which is worth a look:

  • Pythagoras Formula in Squeak Etoys

    Bert posted a youtube video as a response to a newbie question: For her third language she chose Squeak, since she knew that Scratch was written in it. I would like to have her write the “Hello Pythagoras” program using Morphic objects, in a visually appealing way. So far I have had some trouble finding…

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