The Weekly Squeak

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…
Feeding the Mouse some Pi

19 March, 2013

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

14 March, 2013

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

14 March, 2013

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

13 March, 2013

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…