Actually I think screencasting is an incredibly cool phenomenon. I've been travelling and am utterly exhausted, but planning to blog a bit more about it soonish.
Giles, I absolutely agree -- these screencasts are really helping to make Squeak so much more accessible to those of us who know that there's a lot of great stuff in there, but are still trying to work it all out.
Are you a hacker who likes to make music? You know how you feel precise control when you write code you understand, but you have to filter your understanding of your music through oversimplified GUIs which sometimes have terrible UX? I made a series of videos which teaches you how to write music sequencing software in Node.js and CoffeeScript. When I do it, I experience a clarity which makes it easy for me to make more exciting sounds. You may have the same experience. Upcoming episodes will also teach you how to use simple probabilistic artificial intelligence to write code which writes its own music (which I've already done in Ruby).
My screencast is awesome and you just wish you could be as cool as me
ReplyDeleteGiles, I absolutely agree -- these screencasts are really helping to make Squeak so much more accessible to those of us who know that there's a lot of great stuff in there, but are still trying to work it all out.
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