On Fri, Oct 01, 2010 at 06:58:55PM +0530, K. K. Subramaniam wrote:
On Friday 01 Oct 2010 2:58:55 am David T. Lewis wrote:
On Thu, Sep 30, 2010 at 11:00:48AM +0200, jon jonsen wrote:
Does anybody know where to get a list of the (most common) smalltalk-commands and a short description of them?
Hi,
The "Terse Guide to Squeak" provides a handy reference: http://wiki.squeak.org/squeak/5699
UIManager was missing. I added it now.
I would vote for this to go into the image (help->terse guide) or as an external file along with the distro.
I reformatted the Terse Guide so that it can be loaded into the Squeak help browser, and gave it a few updates and corrections. The result is in the Squeak developers' inbox.
Dave
Dave, thank you!!
On Fri, Nov 26, 2010 at 10:46 AM, David T. Lewis lewis@mail.msen.comwrote:
On Fri, Oct 01, 2010 at 06:58:55PM +0530, K. K. Subramaniam wrote:
On Friday 01 Oct 2010 2:58:55 am David T. Lewis wrote:
On Thu, Sep 30, 2010 at 11:00:48AM +0200, jon jonsen wrote:
Does anybody know where to get a list of the (most common) smalltalk-commands and a short description of them?
Hi,
The "Terse Guide to Squeak" provides a handy reference: http://wiki.squeak.org/squeak/5699
UIManager was missing. I added it now.
I would vote for this to go into the image (help->terse guide) or as an external file along with the distro.
I reformatted the Terse Guide so that it can be loaded into the Squeak help browser, and gave it a few updates and corrections. The result is in the Squeak developers' inbox.
Dave
On Fri, Nov 26, 2010 at 10:46 AM, David T. Lewis lewis@mail.msen.comwrote:
On Fri, Nov 26, 2010 at 10:51:52AM -0800, Casey Ransberger wrote:
On Fri, Oct 01, 2010 at 06:58:55PM +0530, K. K. Subramaniam wrote:
On Friday 01 Oct 2010 2:58:55 am David T. Lewis wrote:
On Thu, Sep 30, 2010 at 11:00:48AM +0200, jon jonsen wrote:
Does anybody know where to get a list of the (most common) smalltalk-commands and a short description of them?
Hi,
The "Terse Guide to Squeak" provides a handy reference: http://wiki.squeak.org/squeak/5699
UIManager was missing. I added it now.
I would vote for this to go into the image (help->terse guide) or as an external file along with the distro.
I reformatted the Terse Guide so that it can be loaded into the Squeak help browser, and gave it a few updates and corrections. The result is in the Squeak developers' inbox.
Dave, thank you!!
Well, hopefully it will be useful for us recovering Fortran and C programmers ;-)
Let me issue two follow up challenges, since I could not figure these out on my own:
1) It would be good to add a terse one-line expression that would show the use of block closures. What is the shortest meaningful expression that illustrates this?
2) It would be nice if the pages in the help book could be set to behave like workspaces, with syntax formatting and workspace variables. Can anyone think of a way to do it?
Dave
David T. Lewis wrote:
...
Well, hopefully it will be useful for us recovering Fortran and C programmers ;-)
Let me issue two follow up challenges, since I could not figure these out on my own:
- It would be good to add a terse one-line expression that would show
the use of block closures. What is the shortest meaningful expression that illustrates this?
They allow functional style code to work properly. For example:
fac := [ :n | n > 1 ifTrue: n * (fac value: n-1)] ifFalse: [1]]. fac value: 5. "120"
and
fib := [ :n | n < 2 ifTrue: [1] ifFalse: [(fib value: n-1) + (fib value: n-2)]]. fib value: 10. "89"
Cheers, Juan Vuletich
- It would be nice if the pages in the help book could be set to
behave like workspaces, with syntax formatting and workspace variables. Can anyone think of a way to do it?
Dave
I've been thinking that maybe the folks interested in docs might revive Mr. Kahler's HyperCard implementation for Squeak. We have a lovely opportunity to have live objects in our docs that users can yank out of the page and play with.
I was really hoping to do something like this with the Blue Book, but haven't been successful at connecting with anyone who knows anything about the rights. I need to try getting in touch with Addison-Wesley next, I suppose, since I've been unsuccessful in tracking down David Robson or Adele Goldberg.
Have you looked a ProfStef in Pharo? It does something like what you're suggesting WRT workspace behavior. It's basically a whole tutorial that runs entirely in a workspace, where you actually navigate by evaluating code, which in itself is pretty cool.
I think the coolest bit of tutorial work I've seen lately is Ted Kahler's Text Field for LObjects specification, which is an "active essay" in which the code that describes the text fields is presented right on the page next to the examples. It's really cool. Google around on Moshi and the title, and you should find it.
Moshi is a fun image: lots of things seem to work in it that have been broken throughout my experience in Squeak.
This is off-topic, but does anyone have Connectors working in Squeak Trunk?
On Fri, Nov 26, 2010 at 11:43 AM, David T. Lewis lewis@mail.msen.comwrote:
On Fri, Nov 26, 2010 at 10:46 AM, David T. Lewis <lewis@mail.msen.com wrote:
On Fri, Nov 26, 2010 at 10:51:52AM -0800, Casey Ransberger wrote:
On Fri, Oct 01, 2010 at 06:58:55PM +0530, K. K. Subramaniam wrote:
On Friday 01 Oct 2010 2:58:55 am David T. Lewis wrote:
On Thu, Sep 30, 2010 at 11:00:48AM +0200, jon jonsen wrote:
Does anybody know where to get a list of the (most common) smalltalk-commands and a short description of them?
Hi,
The "Terse Guide to Squeak" provides a handy reference: http://wiki.squeak.org/squeak/5699
UIManager was missing. I added it now.
I would vote for this to go into the image (help->terse guide) or as
an
external file along with the distro.
I reformatted the Terse Guide so that it can be loaded into the Squeak help browser, and gave it a few updates and corrections. The result is in the Squeak developers' inbox.
Dave, thank you!!
Well, hopefully it will be useful for us recovering Fortran and C programmers ;-)
Let me issue two follow up challenges, since I could not figure these out on my own:
- It would be good to add a terse one-line expression that would show
the use of block closures. What is the shortest meaningful expression that illustrates this?
- It would be nice if the pages in the help book could be set to
behave like workspaces, with syntax formatting and workspace variables. Can anyone think of a way to do it?
Dave
On 11/26/10 6:49 PM, "Casey Ransberger" casey.obrien.r@gmail.com wrote:
This is off-topic, but does anyone have Connectors working in Squeak Trunk?
Yes, FunSqueak is trunk with several ³old friends² and ³new wonders² working on top of trunk, off course Connectors is one. MuO image of Stephane Rollandin is another example you must look, several packages was required as pre requisites in his .sar on SqueakMap. Last time Bert say Etoys people coordinates and maintain the package.
Edgar
Casey Ransberger-2 wrote:
I've been thinking that maybe the folks interested in docs might revive Mr. Kahler's HyperCard implementation for Squeak. We have a lovely opportunity to have live objects in our docs that users can yank out of the page and play with.
Chris Cunnington has a cool screencast at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vgJHShom8uc&feature=youtube_gdata about using a StackMorph as a hypercard.
Casey Ransberger-2 wrote:
I think the coolest bit of tutorial work I've seen lately is Ted Kahler's Text Field for LObjects specification, which is an "active essay" in which the code that describes the text fields is presented right on the page next to the examples.
This is amazing. This is blue plane stuff and what I aspire to in my documentation. It truly uses the computer for something more interesting than simulating paper. IIRC there was recently a dl link on VRI's FONC list.
Casey Ransberger-2 wrote:
This is off-topic, but does anyone have Connectors working in Squeak Trunk?
I've been using Connectors in 4.1.
Sean
On 11/26/10 1:49 PM, Casey Ransberger wrote:
I've been thinking that maybe the folks interested in docs might revive Mr. Kahler's HyperCard implementation for Squeak. We have a lovely opportunity to have live objects in our docs that users can yank out of the page and play with.
If it was able to use HyperTalk scripting, you would have so many users pounding on your doors...
Lawson
On Nov 26, 2010, at 10:46 AM, David T. Lewis wrote:
On Fri, Oct 01, 2010 at 06:58:55PM +0530, K. K. Subramaniam wrote:
On Friday 01 Oct 2010 2:58:55 am David T. Lewis wrote:
On Thu, Sep 30, 2010 at 11:00:48AM +0200, jon jonsen wrote:
Does anybody know where to get a list of the (most common) smalltalk-commands and a short description of them?
Hi,
The "Terse Guide to Squeak" provides a handy reference: http://wiki.squeak.org/squeak/5699
UIManager was missing. I added it now.
I would vote for this to go into the image (help->terse guide) or as an external file along with the distro.
I reformatted the Terse Guide so that it can be loaded into the Squeak help browser, and gave it a few updates and corrections. The result is in the Squeak developers' inbox.
Reminds me of the one pager I put together. One page may indeed be *too* terse, but it was fun to try and do:
http://objology.blogspot.com/2010/11/one-page-smalltalk-primer.html
-- Travis Griggs Objologist "I did not have time to write you a short program, so I wrote you a long one instead."
If someone is interested I have prepared a version in DocBook 5 which can be transformed to HTML or PDF. Pascal
----- Original Nachricht ---- Von: "David T. Lewis" lewis@mail.msen.com An: beginners@lists.squeakfoundation.org Datum: 26.11.2010 19:46 Betreff: Terse Guide for Squeak (was: [Newbies] How to give numbers/anything to my program?)
On Fri, Oct 01, 2010 at 06:58:55PM +0530, K. K. Subramaniam wrote:
On Friday 01 Oct 2010 2:58:55 am David T. Lewis wrote:
On Thu, Sep 30, 2010 at 11:00:48AM +0200, jon jonsen wrote:
Does anybody know where to get a list of the (most common) smalltalk-commands and a short description of them?
Hi,
The "Terse Guide to Squeak" provides a handy reference: http://wiki.squeak.org/squeak/5699
UIManager was missing. I added it now.
I would vote for this to go into the image (help->terse guide) or as an external file along with the distro.
I reformatted the Terse Guide so that it can be loaded into the Squeak help browser, and gave it a few updates and corrections. The result is in the Squeak developers' inbox.
Dave
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