List of Potential How-To Tasks

• Create a class
• Create a method
• View the class hierarchy for a particular class
• Move classes and methods between categories

• Create and navigate between projects
• Learn keyboard short-cuts
• Recover if you lose your current session (e.g. your computer crashes before you save the image)
• Learn the contents of / use the toolbars or tabs
• Create a workspace and execute “scratch” code
• Use an Inspector
• Print results to the screen / create console output (e.g. using a Transcript)
• Manipulate strings
• Write control statements from others language (for loop, while loop, do-while loop, if-then-else, switch) in Squeak
• Print (to a printer)
• Find a specific method, especially if you don’t know the exact name
• Find a specific class, especially if you don’t know the exact name
• Revert to an older version of code
• Perform SUnit tests

• Create threads

• Change the appearance of the mouse cursor
• Create your own keyboard short-cuts or modify the existing ones
• Change the default font in Squeak
• Hide the Squeak toolbars / tabs
• Personalize the “look and feel” of Squeak (e.g. the color scheme, background image)
• Customize menus

• Save a class category / class / method category / method as a .st file
• Find and open an external file (including a .st or .cs)
• Save and load a project
• Use change sets

• Make sound files (including music) in Squeak
• Play sound files (including music) in Squeak
• Use synthesized speech
• Coordinate sound and animations
• Use 3D graphics in Squeak
• Create a 3D model (using Pooh)
• Show and manipulate a 2D image in Squeak
• Create 2D animations
• Create an E-toy
• Play / edit video

• Create a simple graphical user interface
• Handle user events in Squeak
• Determine how a visible GUI element responds to user input

• Parse and generate XML files
• Retrieve and parse an HTML file from a website

• Browse the web in Squeak (Scamper)
• Do network (socket) programming in Squeak
• Connect multiple Squeak sessions on different computers (use Nebraska)
• Send email within Squeak (Celeste)
• Set up a swiki using PWS
• FTP a file within Squeak
• Install packages from SqueakMap
• Make a package available on SqueakMap

Links to this Page

• Fall 2003 M2: Create a simple Guide last edited on 12 September 2003 at 1:05 pm by nat-gateway-1.top.biltmorecommunications.net
• Questions on Fall 2003 Milestone 2 last edited on 16 September 2003 at 8:16 am by adsl-19-25-249.asm.bellsouth.net