First, I would like to thank you for the interest you show for my book.

I'm pleased that somebody who knows a lot about Smalltalk is writing a book on Seaside.

I'm not sure I know a lot about Smalltalk as I discovered it two years ago for the first time.

It's necessary. The only real resource is David Shaffer's tutorial, and for a newbie, there are some leaps he makes that confuse one for a couple of days.

Lukas Renggli wrote a tutorial, exercices and slides. http://www.lukas-renggli.ch

If you want my advice, and you asked, then the first thing you need to do is nail down who you are writing the book for. If it's for bit-heads, then you can make it as incomprehensible as you like. If not, then I suggest you try to get into the head of the ignorant person you're writing it for.

I'm writing this book for persons who know nothing about Seaside. Smalltalk knowledge is not necessary too because a chapter will be written on this at the end of the book.

Secondly, you are going to need an editor. You English is unidiomatic. It's "advice" not "advices". If you can't detect the difference between "What does not solve Seaside" and "What Seaside does not solve" then you need somebody who does. If you think it doesn't matter, then you shouldn't be writing a book.

I do not know the difference between the two sentences and I know I need people to read me and correct me. That was part of what I asked in my previous mail. But I do not need such kind of person currently because what I wrote is highly subject to change and I do not want people to loose their time.

I'm an editor. I'd be willing to do that for you for free.

It's very nice, thank you very much. Take care, I will really ask you when I need someone to correct what I wrote :-)

For what it's worth, I've written 25,000 words in the last month on the topic of learning Smalltalk/Squeak/Seaside. You can see it in my blog here: http://www.brokentomb.com

Thank you for this link and thank you for your comment.

Bye

On 15-Nov-06, at 12:44 PM, Another Dave wrote:

Damien Cassou wrote:

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I'm writing this book for persons who know nothing about Seaside. Smalltalk knowledge is not necessary too...

Something that I wish ALL writers would do is find a representative student, and then without coaching, listen to where they have trouble with the lesson.

Exactly - and then after fixing those problems run it past the same victim for review. And *then* past another person that hasn't been 'polluted'.

tim -- tim Rowledge; tim@rowledge.org; http://www.rowledge.org/tim Useful random insult:- Runs squares around the competition.

Hi,

Chris Cunnington wrote:

Secondly, you are going to need an editor. You English is unidiomatic. It's "advice" not "advices".

Hi,

I have seen a presentation of "Just a Word" project http://193.133.140.102/JustTheWord/ created by James Thomas.

One can browse English collocations there and by example find the most fitting one.

On Jul 1, 2006, at 9:59 PM, Michael Doherty wrote:

I find that with a good table of contents and Adobe Reader's search function, I can find what I'm looking for in a pdf document pretty easily.

That's very easy with LaTeX , which I assume Damien is using. load the hyperref package, and make bookmarks.

\usepackage[bookmarks]{hyperref}

Good luck on the book :)

Yann

Is this book still available anywhere on line? I'd like to learn seaside for a student project. Thanks from a part time squeaker.

-Daniel

On Jul 1, 2006, at 6:05 PM, Damien Cassou wrote:

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That's very easy with LaTeX , which I assume Damien is using. load the hyperref package, and make bookmarks. \usepackage[bookmarks]{hyperref} Good luck on the book :)

Done ! Thank you

http://www.enseirb.fr/~cassou/SeasideBook.pdf