The Weekly Squeak

The Weekly Squeak

  • What does the future hold for Pi

      From BetaNews: (see full article here: What does the future hold for Pi) BetaNews: What does the future hold for the Pi — new versions? Liz Upton: The Foundation’s committed to making sure that we don’t suddenly up-sticks and change the platform under people’s feet: the open community has been very good to us, and…

  • Imagine Invent Inspire – Etoys

    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…

  • 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:

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