Help for getting BotsInc on ODLP

>
> Thanks for all your help.
>
> Cheers,
>
> Offray
>
> stéphane ducasse escribió:
>> Hi all
>>
>> I was discussing with Bert about getting botsinc running on ODLP.  
>> The  environment is really small
>> it is 17 classes. And this would be great to have an environment  
>> to  teach Smalltalk on it. Apparently Bert told me that Alan
>> would be interested and that I should send an email to this  
>> mailing- list. So this is what I'm doing.
>>
>> Now I need help. I have a bug when I put a self halt in the  
>> method  that is executed. Ned told me that
>> it could be easily fixed but right now I have no time and I got  
>> already burnt in the pas with concurrency and morphic.
>> So I would like to know if somebody is interested in helping me.
>>
>> square
>> "self square"
>> self north.
>> self go: 200.
>> self halt.
>> self east.
>> self go: 200.
>>
>> Does not stop the bot and its animation. (I have an older version  
>> not  based on the rewrite that Ned did for me
>> but based on morphic wrapper that is working correctly but I  
>> would  prefer to use the last one since I developed further and
>> it is in sync with the book).
>>
>> I was working on a better history of commands. Now there is also  
>> a  problem of how to save script.
>> I proposed to save categories but may be we need something better  
>> than that.
>>
>> I'm working on releasing extra chapters (with Lsystem and other).
>> I'm working also on releasing another micro world with a robot  
>> (looking like Karel with really fun exercises).
>> These extras chapters will be freely available. But all that takes  
>> time.
>>
>> On a 3.8 image
>>
>> On SqueakMap load shout.4 (this is not necessary and we can remove  
>> it  after, it just gives a better feedback on errors).
>>
>> MCHttpRepository
>>      location: 'http://www.squeaksource.com/BotIncPica'
>>      user: ''
>>      password: ''
>>
>> BotIncPica-Ned-sd.44.mcz
>>
>> Under help -> reinstall full menu
>>
>>
>> Stef
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>>
>> stéphane ducasse escribió:
>>    
>>> Hi all
>>>
>>> I was discussing with Bert about getting botsinc running on ODLP.  
>>> The  environment is really small
>>> it is 17 classes. And this would be great to have an environment  
>>> to  teach Smalltalk on it. Apparently Bert told me that Alan
>>> would be interested and that I should send an email to this  
>>> mailing- list. So this is what I'm doing.
>>>
>>> Now I need help. I have a bug when I put a self halt in the  
>>> method  that is executed. Ned told me that
>>> it could be easily fixed but right now I have no time and I got  
>>> already burnt in the pas with concurrency and morphic.
>>> So I would like to know if somebody is interested in helping me.
>>>
>>> square
>>> "self square"
>>> self north.
>>> self go: 200.
>>> self halt.
>>> self east.
>>> self go: 200.
>>>
>>> Does not stop the bot and its animation. (I have an older version  
>>> not  based on the rewrite that Ned did for me
>>> but based on morphic wrapper that is working correctly but I  
>>> would  prefer to use the last one since I developed further and
>>> it is in sync with the book).
>>>
>>> I was working on a better history of commands. Now there is also  
>>> a  problem of how to save script.
>>> I proposed to save categories but may be we need something better  
>>> than that.
>>>
>>> I'm working on releasing extra chapters (with Lsystem and other).
>>> I'm working also on releasing another micro world with a robot  
>>> (looking like Karel with really fun exercises).
>>> These extras chapters will be freely available. But all that takes  
>>> time.
>>>
>>> On a 3.8 image
>>>
>>> On SqueakMap load shout.4 (this is not necessary and we can remove  
>>> it  after, it just gives a better feedback on errors).
>>>
>>> MCHttpRepository
>>>      location: 'http://www.squeaksource.com/BotIncPica'
>>>      user: ''
>>>      password: ''
>>>
>>> BotIncPica-Ned-sd.44.mcz
>>>
>>> Under help -> reinstall full menu

> Hi all
>
> I was discussing with Bert about getting botsinc running on ODLP. The  
> environment is really small
> it is 17 classes. And this would be great to have an environment to  
> teach Smalltalk on it. Apparently Bert told me that Alan
> would be interested and that I should send an email to this mailing-
> list. So this is what I'm doing.
>
> Now I need help. I have a bug when I put a self halt in the method  
> that is executed. Ned told me that
> it could be easily fixed but right now I have no time and I got  
> already burnt in the pas with concurrency and morphic.
> So I would like to know if somebody is interested in helping me.
>
> square
> "self square"
> self north.
> self go: 200.
> self halt.
> self east.
> self go: 200.
>
> Does not stop the bot and its animation. (I have an older version not  
> based on the rewrite that Ned did for me
> but based on morphic wrapper that is working correctly but I would  
> prefer to use the last one since I developed further and
> it is in sync with the book).
>
> I was working on a better history of commands. Now there is also a  
> problem of how to save script.
> I proposed to save categories but may be we need something better  
> than that.
>
> I'm working on releasing extra chapters (with Lsystem and other).
>  

> I'm working also on releasing another micro world with a robot  
> (looking like Karel with really fun exercises).
> These extras chapters will be freely available. But all that takes time.
>
> On a 3.8 image
>
> On SqueakMap load shout.4 (this is not necessary and we can remove it  
> after, it just gives a better feedback on errors).
>
> MCHttpRepository
>      location: 'http://www.squeaksource.com/BotIncPica'
>      user: ''
>      password: ''
>
> BotIncPica-Ned-sd.44.mcz
>
> Under help -> reinstall full menu
>
>
> Stef
> _______________________________________________
> Squeakland mailing list
> [hidden email]
> http://squeakland.org/mailman/listinfo/squeakland
>
>  

>
>> I got the BotIncPica running on the latest OLPC image. First I
>> updated SqueakMap which in turn installs Monticello. Then I tried
>> to load the
>>
>> BotIncPica-Ned-sd.44.mcz but that would not load because of
>> dependencies that could not be found.
>
> Strange.
> I will check. Because it loads perfectly for me on 3.8
> Where can I get a OLPC image?

>
>> I got the BotIncPica running on the latest OLPC image. First I
>> updated SqueakMap which in turn installs Monticello. Then I tried to
>> load the
>>
>> BotIncPica-Ned-sd.44.mcz but that would not load because of
>> dependencies that could not be found.
>
> Strange.
> I will check. Because it loads perfectly for me on 3.8

>
>> At this moment we're going to start to use Monticello for some
>> collective project, and would be nice to know how to open Monticello
>> and use from Bots Inc, or use Bot Inc from some image.
>>
>> I have been trying to load Bots Inc on Squeakland 3.8-05 #552 but I
>> can't get Monticello working on it (I get the errors in the attached
>> files).
>
> I know that my code load easily on squeak-38-full but I do not have
> squeakland 38-05. Where can I find it?

>
>>
>> Is nice to hear that some chapters of the book will be free.
>
> This was always my intention. The problem is that my english is not
> good enough so I had to go with an editor to
> get a real copy edit phase. Now you can buy an electronic copy of the
> book it is cheaper and I guess that you can share it :)
>
>> Using your book here is a real help, but most of students can't pay
>> for it, and having just a copy for the all group is really
>> uncomfortable (we're an small group of 10 and I have ask it to the
>> Mathematics Department but we're out of budget for this semester). A
>> creative commons license with free distribution and the possibility
>> to create derived works like translations would be really nice.
>
> For the new material everything will be free CC license.
>