Second Life in SchoolAnd the LSL Programming Language

Jordan Widiker

Virtual World Linden Lab (1999) 245 Employees Phillip Rosendale 2003 1M Users Simulators

Mainland Estates

Second Life

Land TypeSquare Equal Line Length

(m)Max Prims Avatar Limit

OpenSpace 256×256 750 10

Homestead 256×256 3750 20

Mainland Region

256×256 15,000 100

Private Island 256×256 15,000 100

Second Life

Over 150 Schools University of Wisconsin Milwaukee Arizona State University University of Texas Arlington University of Illinois Chicago Penn State World Campus University of Liverpool

Second Life in School

Art Biology Chemistry Computer Science Engineering History

Second Life in School

Second Life in SchoolArt

SBCC

Second Life in SchoolArt

Coyote

Second Life in SchoolBiology

Tupol Island

Second Life in SchoolBiology

LINDSAY Virtual Medicine

Second Life in SchoolChemistry

Pharmatopia

Second Life in SchoolChemistry

Second Life in SchoolChemistry

Second Life in SchoolScience

Science School

Second Life in SchoolEngineering

Virtual Mine

Second Life in SchoolEngineering

The Frontier Project

Second Life in SchoolHistory

Sydenham Crystal Palace

Second Life in School

Linden Scripting Language Compiled

LSL Bytecode MONO

States Events Procedural

LSL Language

LSL Bytecode 16KB Memory Static Allocation RFC 2279

~2 Million Characters Divide by 0

Error

LSL Language

MONO 64KB Memory Dynamic Allocation RFC 3629

~1 Million Characters Divide by 0

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LSL Scripting Language

LSL LanguageStates

LSL LanguageEvents

State Touch Collision

Land Money Email Message Sensor

LSL LanguageEvents

Procedural Language Functions

LSL Language

Joined June 2008 Oct 2008 Early 2010 July 2010

~1,500 Lines ~3,000 Lines in January

My Experience

http://wiki.secondlife.com/wiki/Second_Life_Education_Directory

http://wiki.secondlife.com/wiki/Mono

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Second_Life

Sources