Squek is worth the try.. it's a "different" environment but great for kids, beginners and serious stuff alike. I helped my kids to write a simple "swimming fish" screensaver, took a few days after I played with it for 2 weeks or so. <a href="http://www.squeakland.org/">Squeak is here</a>
I want to wait for more facts about this before making (my) judgement - even though my gut reaction is that Sun should stick with their original promise to submit Java to ISO - they have been aproved as a PAS submitter for more then a year now.
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This has been I think in Squeak Alice for a long time.
Also in OpenCroquet via TPainter
http://opencroquet.org/
https://lists.wisc.edu/read/messages?id=1385929
and Impara has a beautiful commercial 2D/3D drawing program based on similar technology:
http://impara.de/projekt_plopp_engl.html
It is about fashion. Count "Ruby" in replies, > 100. Count "Smalltalk" ~ 5. A cleaner language with better library is talked about so much less
try Squeak Smalltalk
try 3D Croquet
Designed for kids education (see eToys) by Alan Kay and others. See http://squeakland.org/ and http://www.squeakland.org/kids/kidshome.html.
Squek is worth the try .. it's a "different" environment but great for kids, beginners and serious stuff alike. I helped my kids to write a simple "swimming fish" screensaver, took a few days after I played with it for 2 weeks or so. <a href="http://www.squeakland.org/">Squeak is here</a>
For Alan Kay's current work, look at www.squeak.org and www.opencroquet.org.
I want to wait for more facts about this before making (my) judgement - even though my gut reaction is that Sun should stick with their original promise to submit Java to ISO - they have been aproved as a PAS submitter for more then a year now.