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== Definition ==

* Squeak is highly portable open-source Smalltalk with powerful multimedia facilities. Squeak is used for a wide variety of computing tasks, ranging from child education to innovative research in computer science, or creation of advanced dynamic web sites.

* In education, ''Squeak'' often just refers to '''Squeak Etoys''', an easy [[visual programming language]]/ execution environment built on top of Squeak that is a very popular tool for building [[microworld]]s (designers, teachers and children as authors).

* {{quotation | [http://www.squeakland.org Squeak Etoys] was inspired by LOGO, PARC-Smalltalk, Hypercard, and starLOGO. It is a media-rich authoring environment with a simple powerful scripted object model for many kinds of objects created by end-users that runs on many platform, and is free and open source. It includes 2D and 3D graphics, images, text, particles, pres-entations, web-pages, videos, sound and [[MIDI]], etc. It includes the ability to share desktops with other Etoy users in real-time, so many forms of immersive mentoring and play can be done over the Internet}} ([http://www.squeakland.org/pdf/etoys_n_learning.pdf Etoys and learning])

* The best known member of the squeak community is probably Alan Kay, inventor of the [[Dynabook]] and who is also known by: ''The best way to predict the future is to invent it.''

Note: Maybe we should separate Etoys from Squeak and make two articles. Etoys has gained recent interest again, because it ships with the [[OLPC]] (the 100$ PC).

== Squeak in education ==

* [http://www.squeakland.org/ Squeakland] is the home for '''Etoy''', an easy graphical programming environment built on top of Squeak. This site has downloads, information for teachers and children, papers, etc.

* [http://weblogs.media.mit.edu/llk/scratch/ Scratch] is a programming language for children animations, games, and interactive art. Developped at MIT's [http://llk.media.mit.edu/ LifeLong Kindergarten group].

* [http://www.comikit.se/ ComiKit] is a Swedish product for making games and interactive pictures.

* The [http://coweb.cc.gatech.edu/csl/9 Swiki server] is a very popular Wiki System (despite the fact that development seems to be frozen). E.g. TECFA runs 2 Swiki servers that are used in the school system.

* Squeak is also a important foundation of [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Croquet_project Croquet]], an open source software platform for creating deeply collaborative multi-user online applications

== Links ==

* [http://www.squeak.org/ squeak.org]

* [http://squeakland.org/ http://squeakland.org/]

* [http://minnow.cc.gatech.edu/squeak Squeak Swiki]

* [http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Etoys Etoys] ([[OLPC]] wiki)

* [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Etoys_%28programming_language%29 Etoys - Wikipedia]

== References ==

* Allen-Conn, BJ and Kim Rose (2003), Powerful Ideas in the Classroom, Using Squeak to Enhance Math and Science Learning, Viewpoints Research Institute. ISBN 0974313106

* Ingalls, Dan; Ted Kaehler, John Maloney, Scott Wallace and Alan Kay (1997). Back to the Future. The Story of Squeak, A Practical Smalltalk Written in Itself. OOPSLA 97 Proceedings.318-326. ACM Press, New York, [http://users.ipa.net/~dwighth/squeak/oopsla_squeak.html HTML], retrieved 20:02, 14 November 2007 (MET).

* Kay, Alan (2002). The Computer Revolution Hasn't Happened Yet - Grand Challenge: Make It Happen In The Best Possible Way 3. CRA Conference on "Grand Research Challenges" in Computer Science and Engineering, June 23-26, 2002, Airlie House, Warrenton, Virginia [http://www.cra.org/Activities/grand.challenges/kay.pdf PDF] (3 pages).

* Kay, Alan. (2005). [http://www.vpri.org/pdf/etoys_n_authoring.pdf Squeak Etoys Authoring & Media], VPRI Research Note RN-2005-002, Viewpoints Research Institute. (PDF)

* Kay, Alan. (2005). [http://www.vpri.org/pdf/etoys_n_learning.pdf Squeak Etoys, Children & Learning], VPRI Research Note RN-2005-001, also from [http://www.squeakland.org/pdf/etoys_n_learning.pdf here] (PDF)

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