Dependence on Programming Experts

[GregSmith]

Dan & Rodney:

O.K., now, just as I was salivating over the potential usefulness and joy of
using Squeak, Rodney comes along and throws water all over me.  Which is it? 
Who is right?  I haven't yet had time to look at the actual Squeak language,
but I did see that incredibly direct and simple "kids" example of using
Squeak over at SqueakLand, or is it SmallTalkLand?  EToys.  And then there
is the integration of all the functionality that the Alice environment
offered, brought over into SqueakLand, or whatever it is called.  Is it all
too good to be really true?

My initial impressions of this environment were that it teaches new users,
even kids, to apprehend, to comprehend the concepts involved in programming,
so that, after those things are grasped, then the cryptic programming
terminology can be introduced which, if those are introduced first, confuses
the heck out of anyone wanting to learn to program.  Even if a programming
language is English-like, what is needed beyond and prior to learning lines
of "code" is really understanding sequences of events and why they need to
be in the order that they need to be in to get the machine to respond
properly.  Right?

Greg Smith
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