From: SonOfLilit <sonoflilit@...>
Date: 2007-02-12T00:12:50+09:00
Subject: Re: Getting my sister to learn programming

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Yes, but I want to teach her an environment where if she comes to me and
wants to program, say, a GUI, or a game, or a website, I can show her how.

With Squeak, I haven't figured out the only simple task I've ever tried to.

That isn't a good sign...

Aur Saraf

On 2/11/07, Mushfeq Khan <mushfeq.khan@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> >
> >
> >   * Squeak seems like a really great thing to teach, and Smalltalk a
> great
> > language (simple syntax and ideas), but I can't seem to do useful things
> > in
> > Squeak myself (perhaps I didn't find the good resources? If so, could
> > someone point me to them?)
> >
>
> There's a book out that uses Squeak as an introduction to programming:
>
> http://www.apress.com/book/bookDisplay.html?bID=444
>
> I've leafed through it a little and it looked very cool. Professor Ducasse
> also maintains a page with free online editions of a lot of classic
> Smalltalk books at:
>
> http://www.iam.unibe.ch/~ducasse/FreeBooks.html
>
> Mushfeq.
>

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