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Squeak Swiki

Last updated at 6:04 pm UTC on 15 April 2013

About Squeak

Squeak is a tightly integrated software development environment for live software construction using the object-oriented programming language Smalltalk. It runs on many computers and operating systems. Squeak is free and open source. Squeak has its own unique place in the universe. A growing community of Squeak developers and users meet here to share facts and pointers to other Squeak related websites.

http://www.squeak.org/ – Squeak's main website, also reachable by clicking on the Squeak mouse icon on the top left

Getting Started with Squeak

Downloading Squeak – How to get Squeak.
Introductions to Squeak – Tutorials and other introductions to Squeak and Smalltalk.
Squeak-beginners mailing list – A friendly place for new Squeakers to ask questions.
New Squeaker questions – A wiki page to post and answer questions.
Squeak FAQ – Frequently Asked Questions by newbies and not-so-newbies.
Documentation – A detailed outline of Documentation on Squeak.
Reporting Bugs and Fixes – How to report a bug or submit a fix or enhancement for Squeak.

News aboutSqueak

News – The Weekly Squeak.
More News – Planet Squeak.
Even More News – Planetmisc Squeak, more news than you can handle.

Latest stuff

Squeak 4.5 (current development system, alpha)
Squeak 4.4
Squeak 4.3:
Squeak 4.2
New packages – The most recent packages made available on SqueakMap.

Using Etoys

If you're interested in the Etoys scripting system and its uses in education, you should look at the Squeakland web site. There are tutorials and a number of other resources there for your use. You should also get the Squeakland release from that site rather than the releases discussed here if you're primarily using the Etoys environment or working with kids.

Squeakland – The main site for Etoys users.
Etoys on the OLPC – Did you know that Etoys and therefore Squeak runs on the OLPC?
Etoys Community – Here's a sampling of groups from around the world using Etoys right now.
Etoys – The main page about Etoys on this Swiki.

Documentation

Documentation – A detailed outline of Documentation on Squeak.
Documentation on http://www.squeak.org – A detailed outline of Documentation on Squeak from the main Squeak website.
The World of Smalltalk – a collection of Smalltalk related information

Community

The Squeak Foundation – Homepage for the Squeak Foundation oversight board
The Squeak Oversight Board coordinates the community’s open-source development of its versatile Smalltalk environment. Read about its mission on its blog.
Squeak Oversight Board Election 2013
Squeak Mailing Lists – The real discussions take place on the Squeak email list.
Squeak on IRC – Places to talk with other Squeakers.
Squeak websites – Other good websites with Squeak content.
Squeak groups – Information about Squeak user groups located by region or other interests.
Squeak Events – Upcoming and past events, conferences, Squeak-Ends, user group meetings, etc.
How to contribute to Squeak – From reporting a bug or fix to all the other ways you can help make Squeak better.

Programs and Projects: Past, Present, and Future

SqueakSource – Monticello code repository server which hosts your projects. Connect to it with the Monticello Browser from Squeak or use the web frontend.
SqueakMap – The catalogue of available Squeak code, including applications, tools, projects, goodies, packages, etc.
All Projects – Many projects complementing SqueakMap, either because they don't fit there (like hardware), or they are not yet maintained there.
UIUC Smalltalk ARCHIVE – A more general Smalltalk archive, but a lot of it works in Squeak as well.
Production Squeak – Squeak code that is being used for commercial or non-commercial applications.
Code requests – Code that's begging to be written, if only someone can find the time.
Google Summer of Code – Link to current and past efforts.
Squeak's User Interface – Information, projects and links about the human computer interface in Squeak.

Programming in Squeak

Code Snippets – Examples of Great Squeak Code.
Squeak bons mots – Little bits of Squeak code that do something interesting.
Practical wizardry – Tips and techniques on how to most effectively use the Squeak development environment.
Maximum Squeak – Projects, techniques, and ideas for getting the best performance from Squeak.
Squeak Language and Classes Reference – Guides to getting started with the language and using the basic classes.

Historical information

About this Site

This site is an annex to the Squeak homepage at squeak.org in the form of a Wiki, which means that there is no designated editor. You can modify any page here (except the Help Guide), and add your questions, answers, and examples of Squeak code. If you see a way to improve the site, please feel free to do it yourself! If you are new to this site, please drop by the Acceptable Use page. Also, if you want to edit any page of this wiki, click the edit link in the upper menu of the page and when asked use squeak as username and viewpoints as password, as explained in the Squeak Documentation Team page.
Don't know what a Wiki is? Try some of these great pages:

The help button, on the right end of the menu bar at the top of this page, is a great introduction.
Sandbox – This page is a place to play around, if you are unsure of how things work.
Thoughts on documentation – Thoughts on using the Wiki for documentation.
Wiki Tips and Tricks
Older versions of this SwikiCurrently there are noMirrors of this Swikithat we know of, which is a pity.

Miscellaneous Pages

Improving Smalltalk-Smalltalk Report Magazine Online Archives-Presenting Squeak– Resources on demonstrating Squeak.
Squeak icons-Other open source projects-Screenshots of Squeak– What Squeak actually looks like, what it can look like.
Squeak inside a web browser– Check it out.