[Squeakland] Lack of documentation frustrating

[Guyren Howe]

Hi,

I am volunteering at a local school, and will be doing squeakland  
once a week with some fifth graders.

Squeakland (etoys?) seems ideal for these kids, except that I'm  
frustrated by the lack of documentation.

I've spent ages looking through the website and searching online, and  
I can't really find the kinds of things I'm looking for. I went  
through some of the tutorials myself, and those will be great to get  
started, but I would like to give the kids fairly free reign, and be  
able to answer most of their questions. I tried to do some little  
projects myself, but I kept coming up with seemingly simple things I  
wanted to do, and not finding any obvious way to do them (or,  as I  
say, any documentation suitable for answering the questions).

For example: I wanted to make an etoy follow the mouse pointer  
around. I can't see any way of even obtaining a reference to a mouse  
object.

I would also like to do loops and suchlike. Not obvious how to do that.

I can see that if I can dive down into the smalltalk level, I could  
do it, but this seems like the kind of thing that's probably at the  
squeakland (etoy? What do I call the kids' environment?) level.

But as I say, what I'm really looking for is not this particular  
fish, but how to fish for myself.

I would buy a book, but the one pointed at from the website appears  
to just be a set of projects, rather than the kind of documentation  
I'm looking for. Squeak: Learn Programming by Controlling Robots  
looks like it might be sort of what I'm looking for, although I'm  
interested in a broader range of Squeakland projects than just the  
turtle graphics mentioned in the summary of the book.

So: where is the documentation it seems ought to be there?

Thanks.