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Helping Everyone Create with Computing

Dr. Mark Guzdial, Georgia Institute of Technology Learn more about the USC Institute for Creative Technologies at http://ict.usc.edu.

How teaching differently can make a difference and what it might mean for the programming profession.

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Mark is working hard to share his vast experience in teaching, but especially his original take on it.

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Gnome2 Look for VisualWorks - Smalltalk with James Robertson

Gnome2 Look for VisualWorks - Smalltalk with James Robertson | Smalltalks | Scoop.it
Football betting odds. [footballoddsblog] May 6, 2013 11:58:35.968. www.jarober.com is incredible, bookmarked. [link 1]betting. [1 http://footballodds.tumblr.com>Football ] ...
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The European Smalltalk User Group needs your presentations for ...

For the past 21 years, the European Smalltalk User Group (ESUG) has organised the International Smalltalk Conference, a lively forum on cutting edge software technologies that attract people from both academia and ...
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Creating Time-based One-time Passwords with Pharo

Creating Time-based One-time Passwords with Pharo | Smalltalks | Scoop.it
Thursday, April 25, 2013. Creating Time-based One-time Passwords with Pharo. Nice article about creating Time-based One-time Passwords with Pharo. # posted by Torsten @ 11:44 PM. Comments: Post a Comment · << Home · This page is ...
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smallworks: The 2.0 VM Release History

smallworks: The 2.0 VM Release History | Smalltalks | Scoop.it
RT @estebanlm: The 2.0 VM Release History: So, now that finally we released Pharo 2.0 (yay!), it is time to talk a bit about ... http://t.co/UQ8Q7uGJA4
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40 years of icons: the evolution of the modern computer interface - The Verge

40 years of icons: the evolution of the modern computer interface - The Verge | Smalltalks | Scoop.it
40 years of icons: the evolution of the modern computer interface The Verge But among those who did were Douglas Engelbart, who, believing he'd accomplished all his engineering career goals at 25, devoted himself to enriching mankind through...
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The Hitchhiker's Guide to ...: Zero Conf with Pharo

The Hitchhiker's Guide to ...: Zero Conf with Pharo | Smalltalks | Scoop.it
Saturday, March 09, 2013. Zero Conf with Pharo. Just read about it. # posted by Torsten @ 7:51 AM. Comments: Post a Comment · << Home · This page is powered by Blogger. Isn't yours?
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IM 118: Text2 for VisualWorks

James Robertson on Smalltalk and the Technology Business (IM 118: Text2 for VisualWorks - http://t.co/rNa9DNp6S8 #smalltalk)
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Pharo Online Help with Markdown support - The Hitchhiker's Guide to

Pharo Online Help with Markdown support - The Hitchhiker's Guide to | Smalltalks | Scoop.it
The Pharo Online Help now has support for the markdown format. I also made a tutorial available on how to use it. Code is on SqueakSource3, but will soon move to SmalltalkHub. You can try in a clean Pharo 2.0 image, load ...
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The Hitchhiker's Guide to ...: Pharo on iPad

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Thursday, February 28, 2013. Pharo on iPad. Pharo running on the iPad with iOS 6.1.2. Nice! # posted by Torsten @ 12:26 PM. Comments: Post a Comment · << Home · This page is powered by Blogger. Isn't yours?
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The Hitchhiker's Guide to ...: Pharo consortium

The Hitchhiker's Guide to ...: Pharo consortium | Smalltalks | Scoop.it
Pharo consortium. The Pharo consortium has it's page up and running: http://consortium.pharo.org · # posted by Torsten @ 11:26 AM. Comments: Post a Comment · << Home · This page is powered by Blogger.
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Uko on Code: Meet the grammars

Uko on Code: Meet the grammars | Smalltalks | Scoop.it

Lately I was working with ASTs a lot. After completing full Smalltalk AST meta-mode with ease, upcoming work on Java's abstract syntax tree looks like a big pain in the ass. So I decided to do some fun stuff for a while like generating dependency graphs of language grammars and comparing them.

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Cincom® VisualWorks® Documentation: a Brief Overview and ...

Cincom® VisualWorks® Documentation: a Brief Overview and ... | Smalltalks | Scoop.it
VisualWorks includes extensive documentation, delivered in the form of over 20 PDF guides (approximately 3600 pages) and an integrated Help system comprised of.
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Using gst-profile to profile Iliad | GNU Smalltalk

Using gst-profile to profile Iliad | GNU Smalltalk | Smalltalks | Scoop.it
The GNU Smalltalk interpreter is keeping a counter on the executed bytecodes and is exposing this profiling information to the Profiler package. This package will create a file that can be opened with the excellent kcachegrind ...
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The Hitchhiker's Guide to ...: Suggestions in Pharo 3.0

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Suggestions in Pharo 3.0. The upcoming Pharo 3.0 provides "suggestions" in the code editor. Here is a demo video. # posted by Torsten @ 8:02 AM. Comments: Post a Comment · << Home · This page is powered by Blogger.
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Sqnappy - a Squeak/Pharo binding of the snappy compressor library

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Sqnappy - a Squeak/Pharo binding of the snappy compressor library. Snappy is a compression/decompression library. Its does not provide best compression - but is very fast. Now there is a Squeak/Pharo binding to the ...
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GemTalk Systems Acquires GemStone/S

GemTalk Systems Acquires GemStone/S | Smalltalks | Scoop.it
Today GemTalk Systems announced the acquisition of the GemStone/S platform from VMware. Before anyone gets their knickers in a knot, this is a good thing: GemTalk Systems plans to expand its 64-bit...
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Pharo 2.0 shines light on hundreds of improvements - The H

Pharo 2.0 shines light on hundreds of improvements - The H | Smalltalks | Scoop.it
Pharo 2.0 shines light on hundreds of improvementsThe HThe developers of the Pharo Smalltalk fork have released version 2.0 of the language.
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The Hitchhiker's Guide to ...: IRC Pharo

The old IRC channel #pharo-project about Pharo is now closed. So if you want to chat about the Pharo environment use the new #pharo channel on freenode. # posted by Torsten @ 2:08 AM. Comments: Post a Comment ...
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Powerful Ideas

http://www.ted.com/talks/alan_kay_shares_a_powerful_idea_about_ideas.html Casey mentioned: Speaking of Pythagoras, Alan Kay demos a visual proof for the theorem that's super easy for just about any...
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Teaching FP to freshmen

Teaching FP to freshmen | Smalltalks | Scoop.it
This semester Dan Licata and I are co-teaching a new course on functional programming for first-year prospective CS majors.  This course is part of the new introductory CS curriculum at CMU, which ...
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Note this: "Object-oriented programming is eliminated entirely from the introductory curriculum, because it is both anti-modular and anti-parallel by its very nature, and hence unsuitable for a modern CS curriculum."

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Note this: "Object-oriented programming is eliminated entirely from the introductory curriculum, because it is both anti-modular and anti-parallel by its very nature, and hence unsuitable for a modern CS curriculum."

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Dr. Bert Freudenberg: Smalltalk Bindings for Minecraft Pi

Dr. Bert Freudenberg: Smalltalk Bindings for Minecraft Pi | Smalltalks | Scoop.it
Smalltalk Bindings for Minecraft Pi. The Raspberry Pi is a cute little computer. Quite cheap at $35, you plug in USB keyboard+mouse and a TV as monitor. And it is surprisingly capable, even for running 3D games.
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Trial and Epic Fail: Languages added to the list

Trial and Epic Fail: Languages added to the list | Smalltalks | Scoop.it
I had heard the name Alan Kay before, but today I read a few well chosen quotes and articles by him and realized what a brilliant man he is. For example, this flabbergastingly effective call to coding arms made me think that I ...
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What have Ada Lovelace, Caroline Herschel, Rosalind Franklin and Mary ... - The Guardian (blog)

What have Ada Lovelace, Caroline Herschel, Rosalind Franklin and Mary ... - The Guardian (blog) | Smalltalks | Scoop.it
The Guardian (blog)
What have Ada Lovelace, Caroline Herschel, Rosalind Franklin and Mary ...
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add your favourite female computer pioneer here!

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The Careful Programmer: Redline Smalltalk: so long and thanks for ...

Redline Smalltalk: so long and thanks for all the fish. This is the last push for the Redline Smalltalk indiegogo campaign. I give my heartfelt thanks to everybody who lent a hand, be it a donation or getting the word out.
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Smalltalk Digest: February Edition

Smalltalk Digest: February Edition | Smalltalks | Scoop.it
The February edition of Smalltalk Digest is available now.
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