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Etoys
Last updated at 5:46 pm UTC on 22 July 2018
Etoys is a Squeak app for extending Morphic through tile-based scripts. It evolved out of experiments with Scripting with Players -- The "User-Scripting" Style to help young children learn programming by using manipulating large brightly colored tiles instead of composing instructions through keyboard.


Squeakland Etoys was developed in a fork of the Squeak main branch and has been merged back in 2016.
Current status

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.
Currently work is in progress in an intermediary release the Squeak 5.2 image where some functions will be available while a fully functioning result of the merge is planned for a later version.

Etoys on the OLPC

Did you know that Etoys and therefore Squeak runs on the OLPC?

OLPC_logo.png

see Etoys on the OLPC

Etoys in Chrome webstore

Etoys earlier notes

Getting Started with Etoys / User Scripting
Game programming with Etoys
How to access Smalltalk tools in an Etoys image
Squeak Smalltalk TiledMaps package