Posted in History, Just For Fun, Programming, Technology and Software on September 28, 2007 | 2 Comments »
This is a series of posts I’ve had on the back burner for a while. It was inspired by Alan Kay’s comments in an interview from a few years ago, where he said that we’ve seen a significant retrogression in the state of computer science as a result of a “pop culture” that developed in the [...]
Posted in Programming, Squeak, Tutorial on September 27, 2007 | No Comments »
Ramon Leon at On Smalltalk posted a tutorial wiki app. in Seaside. Give it a try.
—Mark Miller, http://tekkie.wordpress.com
Posted in Art, Education, Programming, Technology and Software on September 26, 2007 | No Comments »
Dr. Randy Pausch gives his last lecture (h/t to Mark Guzdial)
Randy Pausch, a computer science professor at Carnegie-Mellon University and the creator of Alice, is dying of pancreatic cancer. I learned this past weekend that he had given his last lecture recently, while he was still in good health. It’s become kind of commonplace for universities to have [...]
Posted in Programming, Squeak, Technology and Software, Tutorial on September 14, 2007 | 2 Comments »
If you’re a software developer and you’ve wanted to learn Squeak, it’s been a struggle for a while now.
In 2001 and 2002 Mark Guzdial wrote two books on it: Squeak: Object-Oriented Design with Multimedia Applications, and Squeak: Open Personal Computing and Multimedia (co-authored with Kim Rose). These are two books I found that have a [...]
