[Glass] UKSTUG Meeting: Agustín Martínez - Diálogo: A Drawing-Based Programming Environment for Kids, Built in Cuis Smalltalk - 29 April 2026

[UK Smalltalk]

Diálogo ( https://dialog.ar/ ) is a desktop tool that lets children aged
10–17 create their own videogames by combining drawn characters with a set
of visual icons — no typing required. The icons compose like cards,
activating behaviours in the drawn objects and naturally leading kids
through concepts such as categories, rules, recursion, and metaprogramming.

In this talk I'll show how Smalltalk's live, image-based environment made
it uniquely suited for building Diálogo. I'll give a demo of the app, walk
through some implementation metrics, and discuss the pedagogical ideas
behind the project — including a free 7-class course I've shared online and
workshops I've run open to the community at the Faculty of Exact Sciences
(UBA).

Agustín Martínez is a developer and researcher at the Universidad de Buenos
Aires (UBA), and the creator of Diálogo, a programming environment for
children built in Cuis Smalltalk. He presented a paper on Diálogo at the
Onward! track of OOPSLA, and has given public talks at Nerdearla,
Argentina's largest tech community event.

This will be an online meeting.

If you'd like to join us, please sign up in advance on the meeting's Meetup
page ( https://www.meetup.com/ukstug/events/314323562/ ) to receive the
meeting details.
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