The Best of Creative Computing Volume 1 (published 1976)
Learning about Smalltalk
By now school had just gotten out and we had stopped
taking our Smalltalk classes for the time being. At the
beginning of July a class was organized for Barron Park kids
and I came up too, to help tutor. These kids started at
about the same place I had but since they're not too
important for the moment l'|I go on about me. I started
working very hard on stickfigures and finally came up with
something that looked like this.
The headless horseman, eh?! Well, I decided that a
stickfigure without a head would never do. So I gave it a
head.
Now, what's so great about a stickfigure if it won't do
something for you? I taught my stickfigures how to play
baseball.
Then, I decided that what I really needed were some
can-can dancers.
After that I worked the original dance routine in so one
figure danced a solo!
At about this time I noticed that out of all the kids from
Barron Park (about twenty) only two or three were girls.
Horror of Horrors!! So I decided that when school came
around I would teach a computer class for girls only!
When school started that's exactly what I set about to
do. Unfortunately the woman I arranged it with convinced
me that there should be boys in my class. I ended up with
three girls and two boys.
I started them off with boxes. Then they, lust as I had,
went on to do their own programs. Lisa started off with a
guessing game,
Kathy did some rocketships and oddshapes,
