The Weekly Squeak

More info here: http://www.raspberrypi.org/archives/5742 or here: http://www.raspberrypi.org/forum/viewtopic.php?f=77&t=66308 Nice work Tim!

         Smalltalk on Javascript.  Are you ready for this!! From Bert: I’m proud to announce SqueakJS, a new Squeak VM that runs on Javascript http://bertfreudenberg.github.io/SqueakJS/ It was inspired by Dan’s JSqueak/Potato VM for Java, and similarly only runs the old Squeak 2.2 mini.image for now. But I developed it inside the Lively Kernel, which…

From: S Krish posted to Pharo-dev Really Cool…. all the power to see it work perfect with all bells n whistles.. http://learn.code.org  has a cool run through in scratch on the browser..  One hour lesson for beginners and many already are on to it.

What happens when you mix Scratch with Arduino Answer: You get   “S4A is a forked version of Scratch proper. The sprites and animating tools are still there, but there are also digital/analog I/O blocks, motor controls, and streaming updates from the analog inputs. S4A differs quite a bit from ArduBlock. It uses a firmata-type…

  Ben said it perfectly: “A cheer goes up in the crowd of interested spectators. Probably lots still to do, but its a nice concrete milestone.” More info here: http://lists.squeakfoundation.org/pipermail/vm-dev/2013-October/013903.html