Roel Wuyts puso en su mail :
Hello,
As other people mentioned, getting started with Smalltalk is the toughest part (unlike most scripting languages like php, where it is the opposite -- try to get some real work done after an initial period of wonder and everything-goes).
What might help is:
- (as was already mentions) : try to fix a goal. What do you want to
learn about first ? Morphic (then build a kind of GUI application), network library (write a newsfeed client), ...
- you might want to use tools like eCompletion or RoelTyper to
figure out some dependencies between classes.
- you might want to use the StarBrowser so that you can keep some of
the classes that interest you in classifications. For me this helps sometimes to build my own structure for understanding code.
Note that all of these approaches are bottom-up. I second the need for top-down information. What I planned to do some years back was to launch the StarBrowser with some beginner classifications that for example contain some of the most used collections, some Morphic classes, etc.
What Roels say reminds me to send again this:
http://www.4shared.com/file/833444/8e413b3e/MorphClassMaps.html
Courtesy of Morphic Team, here you could have a .zip with some of class hierarchy in new Morphic clasification, I attach the small .jpg for you have the idea of what is in .zip
This is the complete list, produced from Squeak with GraphViz module from John Pierce
Morphic-Menus class hierarchy.jpg Morphic-Menus class hierarchy.dot Morphic-Pluggable Widgets class hierarchy.jpg Morphic-Pluggable Widgets class hierarchy.dot Morphic-Support class hierarchy.jpg Morphic-Support class hierarchy.dot Morphic-Text Support class hierarchy.jpg Morphic-Text Support class hierarchy.dot Morphic-Widgets class hierarchy.jpg Morphic-Widgets class hierarchy.dot Morphic-Windows class hierarchy.jpg Morphic-Windows class hierarchy.dot Movies class hierarchy.jpg Movies class hierarchy.dot Speech class hierarchy.jpg Speech class hierarchy.dot Nebraska class hierarchy.jpg Nebraska class hierarchy.dot BalloonMMFlash class hierarchy.jpg BalloonMMFlash class hierarchy.dot
Possible uses is you could have a clear understanding of Morphic or amazing friends with wall size versions of jpg and hard copy of NASA job search about Squeak :=)
Enjoy
