Squeak : Learn Programming with Robots

Stephane Ducasse

ISBN 10: 1590594916 / ISBN 13: 9781590594919

Published by Apress, Apress, 2005

About this Item

nach der Bestellung gedruckt Neuware - Printed after ordering - Are you completely new to programming Do you want to have fun learning to program Squeak: Learn Programming with Robots will teach you core programming concepts based on simple, visual problems that involve manipulation of robots, or 'turtles.' You will learn basic programming concepts like loops, abstractions, composition, and conditionals.Each chapter is structured so that it can be turned into a one- or two-hour lab session. And while the structured content explains solid principles of object-oriented programming, you'll just have fun going through the sequence of easy examples with the turtle.And be sure to check out BotsInc, the companion learning environment for this book.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Squeak : Learn Programming with Robots
• Publisher: Apress, Apress
• Publication Date: 2005
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1590594916
• ISBN 13: 9781590594919
• Binding: Taschenbuch
• Condition: Neu
• Dimensions: 235W x 191H x 21D millimeters 235 millimeters width by 191 millimeters height by 21 millimeters depth
• Weight: 723 grams

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Synopsis

Are you completely new to programming? Do you want to have fun learning to program?

Squeak: Learn Programming with Robots will teach you core programming concepts based on simple, visual problems that involve manipulation of robots, or "turtles." You will learn basic programming concepts like loops, abstractions, composition, and conditionals.

Each chapter is structured so that it can be turned into a one- or two-hour lab session. And while the structured content explains solid principles of object-oriented programming, you'll just have fun going through the sequence of easy examples with the turtle.

And be sure to check out BotsInc, the companion learning environment for this book.

About the Author

Stephane Ducasse obtained his Ph.D. at the University of Nice-Sophia Antipolis and his habilitation at the University of Paris VI. He was recipient of the SNF 2002 Professeur Boursier Award. He is now a professor at the Universit de Savoie. Ducasse has written several books in French and English. Ducasse's fields of interests include reflective systems design, object-oriented language design, software component composition, application implementation and design, and object-oriented application reengineering. He is the main developer of the Moose reengineering environment. Ducasse also loves programming in Smalltalk and serves as president of the European Smalltalk User Group. He is committed to the Squeak community.