On Sun, 30 Sep 2001 Fleeberz@aol.com wrote:
In a message dated 2001-09-30 1:14:18 PM, karl.ramberg@chello.se writes:
Fleeberz@aol.com wrote:
I haven't gotten the hang of Smalltalk AT ALL yet, ...
Three books that were invaluable to me for catching a (for there are many) spirit of smalltalk: A Taste of Smalltalk (alas out of print) Smalltalk-80: the language and implementation (in print as the purple book) Kent Beck's Best Practice Patterns.
Inside Smalltalk is also very useful, as is another book I can't remember the name of.
I very much *like* the white and nuBlue books, but it's very hard for me to tell how good a job then do on instilling a spirit of Smalltalk (in addition to , or instand of, a spirit of squeak).
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I allways browse with optinal buttons on and use the senders of and implementors of all the time to see how stuff is used elsewere in the image.
Surely I've seen references to these things, but can't seem to recall where; looks like it's time to start looking. With luck, I'll trip over them early in the "search." Will be looking for preferences, and perhaps browser menu items such as "show implementors of..." and so on. See? It's easy! (?)
Heh.
cmd-n and cmd-m (browse senders adn implementors) are you friends! I remember teh day that Dan Ingalls mentioned those key commands, my fluency with the system skyrocketed.
Thanks, Karl. I'd ask Cees or Bijan about it, but considering how I've treated those wonderful people in the past, I'm better off having my tail between my legs than nothing at all. :-/ (C, B, I'm sorry. Me bad.)
I'm easy, I forgive at the drop of a hat. Cees, OTOH, Cees might want to see some hair shirt time! :)
Cheers, Bijan Parsia.