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Hints for learning Smalltalk when discovery learning has failed to give the answer.
==Program tiles==
You can find a menu of program tiles in every object browser, which you can get in any object halo by clicking on the eye icon.
==Make tile==
Drag any tile with an exclamation point icon in it to the workspace. A script window will open with that tile in it. Then you can drag other tiles into the same window. When you do so, a green area will highlight, showing where the new tile will go when you drop it. To drag a variable tile into a script window, click its left-pointing arrow. To drag it to the desktop, click anywhere else on it.
==Objects==
Typically you make objects in projects by drawing how you want them to appear, making the drawing a single object, then opening a code browser and creating scripts to tell it what to do.
==Multimedia==
There are multimedia objects on the tools palette for making projects.
==Other Hints==
Hint: to share an Object or the desktop in e-toys
:Drag over a buddy it should highlight
Big hint: balloon help
: It appears if you leave your mouse over a tool on a toolbar or in an object halo, or many other objects.
==External Links==
* [http://squeakland.org/ Squeakland], in particular, the [http://squeakland.org/tutorials/ Tutorials] page
* [http://waveplace.com/courseware/basic-etoys/ Waveplace Coursewore Basic Etoys tutorial] videos
* [http://etoysillinois.org/ EtoysIllinois] resaurces and library collections
* [http://etoysillinois.org/resources?subpage=k5 K-5 Technology Passport]: Curriculum Applications of Etoys in Mathematics, Science, Art, Language Arts, and Social Science
* [http://stephane.ducasse.free.fr/FreeBooks.html Stef's Free Online Smalltalk Books], where Stephane Ducasse obtained permission from authors to upload their books for free distribution. Some are under Creative Commons licenses, and some are apparently freeware.
==Program tiles==
You can find a menu of program tiles in every object browser, which you can get in any object halo by clicking on the eye icon.
==Make tile==
Drag any tile with an exclamation point icon in it to the workspace. A script window will open with that tile in it. Then you can drag other tiles into the same window. When you do so, a green area will highlight, showing where the new tile will go when you drop it. To drag a variable tile into a script window, click its left-pointing arrow. To drag it to the desktop, click anywhere else on it.
==Objects==
Typically you make objects in projects by drawing how you want them to appear, making the drawing a single object, then opening a code browser and creating scripts to tell it what to do.
==Multimedia==
There are multimedia objects on the tools palette for making projects.
==Other Hints==
Hint: to share an Object or the desktop in e-toys
:Drag over a buddy it should highlight
Big hint: balloon help
: It appears if you leave your mouse over a tool on a toolbar or in an object halo, or many other objects.
==External Links==
* [http://squeakland.org/ Squeakland], in particular, the [http://squeakland.org/tutorials/ Tutorials] page
* [http://waveplace.com/courseware/basic-etoys/ Waveplace Coursewore Basic Etoys tutorial] videos
* [http://etoysillinois.org/ EtoysIllinois] resaurces and library collections
* [http://etoysillinois.org/resources?subpage=k5 K-5 Technology Passport]: Curriculum Applications of Etoys in Mathematics, Science, Art, Language Arts, and Social Science
* [http://stephane.ducasse.free.fr/FreeBooks.html Stef's Free Online Smalltalk Books], where Stephane Ducasse obtained permission from authors to upload their books for free distribution. Some are under Creative Commons licenses, and some are apparently freeware.