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Re: distributing squeak on a network

by Eric Eisaman :: Rate this Message:

Good Day Bill,

I use Squeak routinely in my high school physics classes and haven't had any problems with the kids simply running from the same shared folder on a common drive of our school LAN. Of course I haven't had them use bots inc. so I can't comment on that however, I have had them refer to your Etoys Pong tutorial as a guide in constructing their own version.

I'm only half way through the Squeak by Example book by A.P. Black, S. Ducasse, O. Nierstrasz, and D. Pollet with D. Cassou and M. Denker; yet I have gained enough confidence to plan a few lessons for all my students to program from the system browser and debugger and save their programs as Monticello packages. Perhaps when I implement these lessons I will incur technical difficulties due to conflicting change sets or something however, I plan to instruct the students not to save their images but simply to save their work as Monticello packages in the package cache and online at SqueakSource.

Regards,

Eric Eisaman

On Dec 10, 2007 5:50 PM, Bill Kerr <billkerr@...> wrote:

What is a good way to distribute squeak on a network (Windows network at my school) ?

From my understanding there is no option but to give each student their own personal image file but the sources and changes files could be left out.
http://billkerr2.blogspot.com/2007/07/image-file-virtual-machine-bytecodes.html

If I was going to give students both Bots and Squeak then this would result in quite large student folders, the image files range b/w 15 and 20 MB. But I don't see any alternative.

With Bots I get prompts about missing sources and changes files if I try to launch it outside of its folder, but it then goes ahead and loads anyway

I'll attach some file folders so people can refer to them in an answer, if necessary:

BOTS (file sizes in KB unless otherwise specified)

.DS_Store            7
Bots.exe            1053
Bots.ini            1
luth.frm            13
Ready.changes        16747
Ready.image            14841
spider.frm            18
Squeak.ini            1
SqueakV3.sources    14202

ETOYS IMAGE AND PR

etoys.image            19609
DemonCastle1.pr        582
Launcher.pr             210
Welcome.pr            385
ExampleEtoys (folder)    6.44 MB

SQUEAK 3.8

Squeak.exe                    1053
Squeak3.8-6665full.image     17969
Squeak3.8-6665full.changes    13878
SqueakV3.sources            14202
Squeak.ini                    1
SqueakFFIPrims.dll            30
windows folder
SqueakPluginInstaller.exe    6325

cheers,
- Bill
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Bill Kerr
http://billkerr2.blogspot.com/

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