Explore and Learn in the Wonderful World of Squeak

Before you can enter the exciting world of Squeak, you need to download the Squeak plugin at www.squeakland.org

Squeak Projects: Squeak is a free, exciting, multimedia, object oriented programming environment that runs on several different computer platforms. Once you have the Squeak plug-in installed, you can access any project from either an IE or Netscape browser. Once the activity loads, click on the orange tab at the left, labeled Navigator (to make it pop up) and then click on Escape Browser to remove the browser controls so you have more room. Also click the Navigator tab shut for more room. Squeak is challenging play and you can make neat etoys. Have fun and explore. Click on any project below to see some Squeak etoys. Several of these have sound so be sure your speaker is turned on. These projects are works in progress.

Projects Using NASA Data

Topographical map of the Herschel crater on Mars

Topographical map of the Herschel crater on Mars: Measure distance along rover path

Topographical map of the Herschel crater on Mars: Plot elevation from map along with tones for elevations

Topographical map of the Herschel crater on Mars: Follow rover total energy along with tone map

Explorations in Progress

Extrasolar

Pendulum

Compass

Plotting Exercise Data

momentum conservation

freefall

Block Sliding Down Incline and Colliding with Block at Bottom which is Brought to Rest with Friction

exercise

trapezoid area (set resolution to 1024 x 768 and Escape Browser for recording to play properly)

square roots

Moon Phases Simulation

Moon Phases Test

Squeak Demo

Plotting Check

Fun

Jackson Pollack (set your resolution to 768x1024 or higher and Escape Browser to see buttons)

motion of a ball on a string after cutting the string

Chinese Proof of Pythagorean Theorem

I would appreciate any comments or suggestions you may have to improve or extend these projects. You can email me at rcaton@pcs.cnu.edu.