Thursday, August 28 2008
By Hilaire Fernandes (Education 0.2) on Thursday, August 28 2008, 21:31
The fastest Smalltalk booting operating system of this side of the galaxy has landed in the OLPC Association XO notebook. The landing took place under the guidance of captain in chief Girardo Richarte (a.k.a Richie) while we were all attending the ESUG 2008 conferences at Amsterdam.
The lan ....
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Tuesday, August 5 2008
By Hilaire Fernandes (Education 0.2) on Tuesday, August 5 2008, 09:48
In a previous article, I introduced the Smalltalk script system used in DrGeoII. I exposed how a simple script with argument can be used to generate random numbers. Here I will demonstrate the use of script with arguments. When using argument with your script you can do complex computation and plug ....
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Monday, August 4 2008
By Hilaire Fernandes (Education 0.2) on Monday, August 4 2008, 20:10
In DrGeo 1.1, I implemented a Scheme script plugged into a geometric figure. These scripts are written with the Scheme language and they are used to do user computation over geometric items. They are plugged into the area and they display the computed script value. See examples. I took a fresh view ....
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Sunday, June 22 2008
By Hilaire Fernandes (Education 0.2) on Sunday, June 22 2008, 09:26
The 9th Libre Software Meeting will be held at Mont de Marsan, Landes, in SW France, from the 1 to the 5 of July. LSM is an international free software event taking place in Jully, each year, in a town of France. The first event took place in 2000 at Bordeaux. This year, Squeak/Smalltalk will be lar ....
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Thursday, June 19 2008
By Hilaire Fernandes (Education 0.2) on Thursday, June 19 2008, 18:24
In this series of articles, I will highlight the advantages of using Squeak/Smalltalk to develop educational software. At some point and based on my experience, I will compare with other development languages. The focus of this article is for educators and developers interested in software programmi ....
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Saturday, May 24 2008
By Hilaire Fernandes (Education 0.2) on Saturday, May 24 2008, 01:00
iStoa.net is a pretty large project I am developing for education. It is a learning environment with emphasis on interactive activities through artifacts, recording of student activities for further analysis, curriculum modeling with oriented graphs and learner modeling. Yesterday I tested the iStoa ....
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Sunday, May 4 2008
By Hilaire Fernandes (Education 0.0) on Sunday, May 4 2008, 09:50
About the development of mind in 7-12 years old kids, Piaget elaborated the operational thinking concept (or the thinking through action with instruments). For Vygotsky, in his theory of activity, the learner alway operates through auxiliary instruments. Too often, computerized learning environments ....
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Monday, April 28 2008
By Hilaire Fernandes (Education 0.0) on Monday, April 28 2008, 19:42
Piaget distinguait chez les enfants de 7-12 ans la pensée verbale et la pensée
instrumentale. Pour Vygotsky, dans sa théorie de l'activité l’apprenant opère toujours par l’intermédiaire d’un auxiliaire, un instrument. Trop souvent, les environnements informatiques d'apprentissage proposà ....
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Saturday, April 26 2008
By Hilaire Fernandes (Education 0.0) on Saturday, April 26 2008, 09:48
Dans cette série d'articles je mettrai en valeur les avantages à utiliser Squeak/Smalltalk pour développer des logiciels éducatifs. Selon le thème abordé et mon expérience, je comparerai parfois avec d'autres langages. Je destine ces articles aux éducateurs et développeurs intéressés par ....
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By Hilaire Fernandes (Education 0.0) on Saturday, April 26 2008, 09:48
Dans cette série d'articles je mettrai en valeur les avantages à utiliser Squeak/Smalltalk pour développer des logiciels éducatifs. Selon le thème abordé et mon expérience, je comparerai parfois avec d'autres langages. Je destine ces articles aux éducateurs et développeurs intéressés par ....
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Thursday, April 24 2008
By Hilaire Fernandes (Education 0.0) on Thursday, April 24 2008, 12:32
In this series of articles, I will highlight the advantages of using Squeak/Smalltalk to develop educational software. At some point and based on my experience, I will compare with other development languages. The focus of this article is for educators and developers interested in software programmi ....
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By Hilaire Fernandes (Education 0.0) on Thursday, April 24 2008, 12:32
In this series of articles, I will highlight the advantages of using Squeak/Smalltalk to develop educational software. At some point and based on my experience, I will compare with other development languages. The focus of this article is for educators and developers interested in software programmi ....
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Saturday, April 19 2008
By Hilaire Fernandes (Education 0.0) on Saturday, April 19 2008, 11:13
It has been a long process but it looks like it is done now, at least regarding the Squeak version distributed for the OLPC XO laptop. Squeak comes in two pieces: a virtual machine specific to each host, and the Smalltalk sources. The Smalltalk sources come in three files: the image, source, and ....
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Friday, April 18 2008
By Hilaire Fernandes (Education 0.0) on Friday, April 18 2008, 19:58
Dans cette série d'articles je mettrai en valeur les avantages à utiliser Squeak/Smalltalk pour développer des logiciels éducatifs. Selon le thème abordé et mon expérience, je comparerai parfois avec d'autres langages. Je destine ces articles aux éducateurs et développeurs intéressés par ....
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