Hi all,

in two weeks, I am going to give a little talk about Smalltalk: http://metameute.de/nook2016/ .

It is 45 min with students who probably never heard of Smalltalk.

I want to concentrate on the liveliness of the environment with the tools: Workspace, Inspector, Browser and Debugger.

For this, I need a simple but nice example.

I will use VisualWorks 8.2 and Mirko, a new Smalltalk lover, will use Pharo 5.

We want to have the computers connected, maybe also a Pi, to show the platform independence of the image concept.

The first idea was a chat client. A client and a server in one image. Then in two images on one machine, on two machines (also the Pi), maybe in two dialects (VW, Pharo).

Possible to transfer code (blocks) across images (that should blow their minds J).

This is cool, but I am not sure if this is not too much and distracting with other technologies.

Another is to read a csv file or web service and parse it into objects. With the right kind of cool data it is fun to mold these objects for the tools.

This not so sexy, but easy to do from scratch. Unfortunately, the different computers would not play a role.

As you see, I am a bit lost and wanted to ask you guys for ideas.

Happy hacking,

                Christian

P.S. Here in L�beck, a town in northern Germany, the attitude towards Smalltalk is generally positive, interested and curious. Maybe it is time for a Smalltalk renaissance?