11 Dec
2006
11 Dec
'06
6:23 p.m.
Rob wrote:
Unfortunately, the presence of famous people
doesn't
automatically make a project intuitive, modern, or good for
teaching kids.
I totally agree with this. But still I respect them. Not the famous
people, but great innovators.
Squeak needs some updates, and maybe it needs
new blood to make them happen, even if there are no PhD's
contributing code anymore.
I couldn't care less for PhD's. I'm for
self-education. Squeak, BTW, has
been inspired by the construtivism theories and by softwares like Logo
and HyperCard. Not really meant for PhD's.
I personally think it needs some changes to the underlying
language to make it accessible to first-time coders
(scriptHello/self.setCharacters("Hello World")? How is that
better than TO Hello/PRINT [Hello World]/END or good ol' Sub
Main/Print "Hello World"/End? Or Sub Form_Open/Me.Text = "Hello
World"/End if you need to be all OOPsy.)
Transcript show: 'Hello world'.
c.
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