tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29868932.post8703728411658055408..comments2024-02-14T22:50:48.749+10:30Comments on Bill Kerr: the frustrating but eventually successful search for etoy resourcesBill Kerrhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00206808014093631762noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29868932.post-49575779070242919682007-08-27T14:09:00.000+09:302007-08-27T14:09:00.000+09:30hi phil,Your experiences with getting started seem...hi phil,<BR/><BR/>Your experiences with getting started seem fairly similar to mine. It's nice to have independent confirmation.<BR/><BR/>There is now a great bunch of tutorials / demos in one place, not on the squeakland site, but on the latest image of the <A HREF="http://tinlizzie.org/olpc/OLPC-Etoys070726.zip" REL="nofollow">OLPC etoys/squeak version </A>Bill Kerrhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00206808014093631762noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29868932.post-34125125935410880242007-08-27T11:45:00.000+09:302007-08-27T11:45:00.000+09:30Hi Bill, I completely agree with you on the issue...Hi Bill, I completely agree with you on the issue of good Etoys information being hard to find. At the beginning of the year I volunteered to help Etoys to support the OLPC project. I am not a professional programmer but I have programmed in many languages over the last 20 years. I had never used Etoys before but figured if it was a programming language for kids I should be able to pick it up in no time. Boy was I wrong! First I tried just playing around with it thinking I would be able to do basic things. After a few non productive weekends of that I realized I needed a good tutorial. My web searches (which I am usually pretty good at) turned up very little information. The things I did find usually dealt with squeek and not specifically Etoys. After running into a Etoys bug that prevented me from using the recording feature to show how to import pictures I became disillusioned with the project. I stayed subscribed to the email list (which is how I found your blog) and have seen the Etoys people really put a lot of work into it. When I saw the email from Carla G. on Friday about the teachers and kids being intimidated by it and not using it I was immediately reminded of my experience. I still would like to help the project so I will try the tutorials you suggested. Maybe this time something will sink into my thick skull and I will be able to make something useful for the teachers and kids.<BR/><BR/>Thanks for the information<BR/><BR/>Phil D.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29868932.post-54996055848713775902007-04-23T20:11:00.000+09:302007-04-23T20:11:00.000+09:30thanks serge,The wiki looks good. I also found som...thanks serge,<BR/><BR/>The wiki looks good. I also found some other french references to my recent etoys / squeak splurge, <A HREF="http://doesnotunderstand.free.fr/?p=286" REL="nofollow">doesnotunderstand </A> blog and the <A HREF="http://lists.squeakfoundation.org/pipermail/squeak-fr/2007-April/004188.html" REL="nofollow">french squeak list</A>Bill Kerrhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00206808014093631762noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29868932.post-90921903045842317662007-04-22T21:40:00.000+09:302007-04-22T21:40:00.000+09:30You are right Bill, the EToys documentation is dif...You are right Bill, the EToys documentation is difficult to found. In the <A HREF="http://community.ofset.org/wiki/Squeak" REL="nofollow">french Squeak community</A> we setup a Wiki in order to foster the documentation development. I hope a similar effort will also be conduct in english.Stinckwichhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05756019402978409780noreply@blogger.com