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Thursday Afternoon
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| 74 | Squeak as a Development Platform Tansel Ersavas, RaSE Inc. |
Colorado Convention Center - A101  |
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Squeak is a new implementation of Smalltalk-80 with a Virtual Machine written in Smalltalk. Squeak is quickly becoming a viable platform for developing systems as well as for teaching object-oriented programming. This tutorial will highlight the key features of Squeak such as the Morphic User Interface, Balloon resolution independent graphic system, networking abilities, Internet usage, and the integration of Squeak to object databases such as Gemstone. Examples will be provided.
Participants will familiarize themselves with Squeak and its environment and will feel comfortable in Squeak environment. They will be introduced to all highlights of Squeak such as Morphic, Balloon and Networking. They will observe advantages of using Squeak and learn what types of systems are good candidates for using Squeak Attendee Background: Participants should have a general familiarity with the object-oriented paradigm. Familiarity with Smalltalk will be useful, but not required. Tansel Ersavas is the President of RASE Inc. He holds a B.S. and an M.S. in computing and has worked in the field since 1979. He is a the designer and developer of the Snowball Rapid Systems Engineering Tool and the Fuzzy Object and Behavior Modeling technique. |
