Squeak/Croquet (was: Re:ActionScript as a teaching language)

[Yanni Chiu]

Peter wrote:
> Continuing on the Squeakland idea, the organization that wrote 
> Squeakland may have something interesting:
> 
> http://www.viewpointsresearch.org/about.html

After doing Smalltalk on and off for close to 20 years,
I'm glad to see some renewed interest.

Here's a must see demo video of the Croquet environment.
(www.opencroquet.org):
    http://am.mediasite.com/am/viewer/Viewer.aspx?layoutPrefix=LayoutLargeVideo&layoutOffset=Skins/Clean&width=881&height=648&peid=172f6de5-135b-4ba0-9207-ac6d383812c9&pid=fc503ef3-4a4e-44a6-b289-c915d8bf7bd3&pvid=502&mode=Default&shouldResize=false&playerType=WM64Lite

It runs about 1.5 hours. There's a ten minute introduction,
then the presenter jumps right into the demo. The Q&A after
the demo runs for about 25 min. What you'll see: two presenters
with two networked machines. Each has an avatar in a shared
virtual space. Each machine shows the virtual space from a
different point of view, and everything that happens in the
virtual space is replicated on both machines.

Not only is there Croquet, there's also the Seaside web
framework that I gave a talk on in Nov. at NewTLUG.
If there's interest, I can give a talk on programming
in Smalltalk (or even do Seaside again).

One more thing, this year's Smalltalk Solutions conference
will be hosted at "Linux World and Network World", in Toronto
(April 2006).

-- 
Yanni Chiu

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