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#1 2009-10-24 20:39:19
You can now share your Etoy projects
I’ve recently noticed that the Squeakland site now has the ability to let you upload your Etoys projects. Etoys is an alternate programming language that is based on Squeak. They do something a little different with their "showcase". They have a set of people rate each project and all the projects are displayed in order of rank. Members get points for submitting projects and for rating other's projects. (The points you earn determine the color of a dot next to your userid.)
Etoys looks like it might be interesting. For one thing you can create copies of a sprite while your project is running. For another, you can use the whole screen for a higher res project. On the other hand, the tile based approach has been awkward for me and the whole look of the IDE seems flat. But I think it’s worthwhile to try out different things. http://www.squeakland.org/showcase/
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#2 2009-11-02 10:39:27
Re: You can now share your Etoy projects
An update on using Etoys: I have succeeded in writing and uploading my first Etoys project. You can access it at this link: http://squeakland.org/showcase/project.jsp?id=7683. If you don’t have the Etoys plugin, it will give you a link to download it. I decided to recreate my Scratch frog puzzle http://scratch.mit.edu/projects/Digimath/27783 since Etoys was (well, really still is) new to me.
The Etoy concept of siblings was very useful since all six of frog objects share the same code. (In fact, Etoys has a particle object that allows thousands of objects to share the same code.)
I also like the fact that the browser plugin Is the same as offline version of Etoys. As far as I can tell there are no compatibility issues since the online and offline versions of Etoys are both written in Squeak.
Looks like Etoys could be a good way to learn and use some different programming features.
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