CodeWeek – Squeak and Etoys – SAP Innovation Center
17 October, 2015
Cool, Interesting – WAIT – is that SCRATCH!!
12 May, 2015
https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1598272670/chip-the-worlds-first-9-computer
The wildly popular C.H.I.P. comes pre-loaded with Scratch!
Nice play C.H.I.P.!
23rd International Smalltalk Joint Conference – Call for Contributions
11 February, 2015
Please distribute widely
23rd International Smalltalk Joint Conference – Call for Contributions
Brescia, Italy
from 13 to 17 July 2015
http://www.esug.org/Conferences/2015/
This call includes:
Developer Forum
Smalltalk Technology Award
International Workshop
http://www.esug.org/wiki/pier/Conferences/2015/International-Workshop-IWST_15
Student Volunteer
http://www.esug.org/wiki/pier/Conferences/2015/Student-volunteers
Camp Smalltalk 12 July 2015
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You can support the ESUG conference in many different ways:
* Sponsor the conference. New sponsoring packages are described at
http://www.esug.org/wiki/pier/About/BecomeSponsor
* Submit a talk, a software or a paper to one of the events. See below.
* Attend the conference. We’d like to beat the previous record of
attendance (170 people at Amsterdam 2008)!
* Students can get free registration and hosting if they enrol
into the the Student Volunteers program. See below.
Developers Forum: International Smalltalk Developers Conference
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We are looking for YOUR experience on using Smalltalk. You will have
30 min for presentations and 45-60 min for hand-ons tutorial.
The list of topics for the normal talks and tutorials includes, but is not limited to the following:
* XP practices, Development tools, Experience reports
* Model driven development, Web development, Team management
* Meta-Modeling, Security, New libraries & frameworks
* Educational material, Embedded systems and robotics
* SOA and Web services, Interaction with other programming languages
Teaching Pearls and Show us Your Business
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– Show your business 10 min session (Get prepared!!)
– Teaching pearls : we want some session on how to teach some design aspects. We want your tip and tricks to teach Smalltalk or OOP.
We expect to have several 10 to 15 min sessions aggregated.
!! How to submit?
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Submissions deadline is 15 of May 2015
Notification of acceptance will be on done on the fly.
More information at http://www.esug.org/conferences/2015
Pay attention: the places are limited so do not wait till the last minute to apply. Prospective presenters should submit a request to Stephane.Ducasse at inria.fr AND USE THE following header [ESUG 2015 Developers].
Please follow the template below the email will be automatically processed!
Subject: [ESUG 2015 Developers] + your name First Name:
Last Name:
Email where you can always be reached:
Title:
Type: Tutorial/Talk/Teaching Pearl
Abstract:
Bio:
Any presentation not respecting this form will be discarded automatically
International Workshop on Smalltalk Technologies
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Read the page: http://www.esug.org/wiki/pier/Conferences/2015/International-Workshop-IWST_15
Technology Award Competition
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The top 3 teams with the most innovative software will receive, respectively, 500 Euros, 300 Euros and 200 Euros during an awards ceremony at the conference. Developers of any Smalltalk-based software are welcome to compete.
More information at http://www.esug.org/conferences/2015/
Student Volunteer Program
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If you are a student wanting to attend ESUG, have you considered being a student volunteer? Student volunteers help keep the conference running smoothly; in return, they have free accommodations, while still having most of the time to enjoy the conference.
More information at
http://www.esug.org/wiki/pier/Conferences/2015/
http://www.esug.org/wiki/pier/Conferences/2015/Student-volunteers
We hope to see you there and have fun together.
SqueakJS runs Etoys now
5 July, 2014
From Bert Freudenberg:
Hi all,
my SqueakJS VM has reached a major milestone. It is now sufficiently complete to run a full Etoys image (and possibly other non-closure images, too). It has support for most BitBlt modes, WarpBlt, even some Balloon2D rendering (for TTF fonts), a virtual file system, image saving etc.
Try it: http://bertfreudenberg.github.io/SqueakJS/etoys/
(Safari and IE are significantly faster than Firefox and Chrome, best is Safari Webkit nightly, works on iPad too, hopefully Android)
For more details, see my blogpost:
http://croquetweak.blogspot.de/2014/07/squeakjs-runs-etoys-now.html
Feedback and contributions welcome 🙂
– Bert –
Spur Memory Manager Object Format Explained
19 January, 2014
Clément Béra just posted an excellent article explaining the new Spur Object format. Definitely worth a read!
Eliot Miranda has also mentioned that Spur is coming to life in Newspeak as we speak and then Squeak 5.0.
Find out more about the Squeak VM called Cog and the new memory manager called Spur at Eliot’s Cog Blog.
Alan Kay – Abel, Fields and Turing Laureates Meet the Next Generation
28 September, 2013
Alan Kay Meeting the Next Generation. See the talk here: http://www.heidelberg-laureate-forum.org/blog/video/lecture-friday-september-27-alan-kay/
Etoys at Maker Faire in Hannover
6 August, 2013
Etoys, children, a funny hat and a handmade Smalltalk balloon. What more could you ask for! Looks like a great day for everyone.
Read more about it here: http://squeaklandnews.blogspot.de/
Squeakfest 2013 in Uruguay
23 May, 2013
It’s that time again. Time to pack up the kids and join us at SqueakFest 2013. Don’t forget to bring your XO computer!
If you can’t make it please consider a donation to help cover travel costs: Donate
For more information see: Squeakfest 2013
From Rita:
There will be a Squeakfest again in Uruguay at June, 7th – 9th, this time in Atlantida. Etoys will cover the major part of the event, but there will also be workshops in Python, turtle art and robotics. After all, Uruguay is the country with XO-laptops in every elementary school and teachers are using the software which comes with Sugar.
http://squeakfest2013.weebly.com/
From our education team, Randall Caton and myself are going to present Etoys workshops. This year, I’ll introduce Kedama. I’m looking forward to an inspiring event!
If you want to help or know someone who would like to, I created a crowdfunding page to collect money to help to cover our travel cost. Please share as you like!
http://crowdfundedu.com/fundraiser/educators-to-squeakfest
Greetings,
Rita
Great Women in Technology – Dr. Cynthia Solomon
24 April, 2013
Dr. Cynthia Solomon
Cool pictures at: http://incolor.inetnebr.com/bill_r/tasman_turtle_page.htm from bill_r
Great article on the History of Logo.
“If Seymour Papert is the Father of Educational Computing, then Cynthia Soiomon is the Mother of Educational Computing! Not only did Cynthia help create the first programming language for children, but she developed many of the pedagogical approaches and activities we still use to teach children to use computers. Forty five years later, Logo is still in use by millions of children around the world in the form of Scratch, MicroWorlds, Snap! and other dialects. The Twenty Things to Do with a Computer paper written by Solomon and Papert in 1970 or ’71 remains provocative today and lays the foundation for the maker movement sweeping the globe.”
See the full article: Time to Honor a Technology Pioneer!
Computer Environments for Children: A Reflection on Theories of Learning and Education
Designing Multimedia Environments for Children
Wouldn’t it be fun to have the Girls For Raspberry Pi read Twenty Things to Do with a Computer 🙂
Imagine Invent Inspire – Etoys
25 March, 2013
Don’t miss the new Etoys book: http://wiki.squeakland.org/index.php/LearningWithEtoysI3.
Etoys is:
- an educational tool for teaching children powerful ideas in compelling ways
- a media-rich authoring environment and visual programming system
- a free software program that works on almost all personal computers
All school children should have the opportunity to engage with computers in the most meaningful way. Learning to think and using the computer to discover and work with powerful ideas is the knowledge of true value. The community of Etoys users is working toward the dream of having all students become computer literate. This book only covers a small portion of those items. As you and your students learn some of the basic techniques, you will find more and more uses for them. The process of learning Etoys is just that, a process; the learning is on-going even though projects are begun and finished. Students will enjoy becoming experts and sharing their knowledge with others in the classroom.
Imagine this: A group of learners want to visualize what they Imagine so they go to Etoys to Invent their dreams and Inspire each other by building on their various Etoys projects. Today’s learners need this kind of experience to be prepared for the future.
For more information about Etoys visit www.squeakland.org
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