[Newbies] The Path From eToys To Squeak To SmallTalk - Or The Other Way

stephane ducasse stephane.ducasse at free.fr
Mon Nov 6 07:20:08 UTC 2006


Thanks

I hope to restart to work on the next one...
http://smallwiki.unibe.ch/botsinc/



On 6 nov. 06, at 00:13, Gene Venable wrote:

> I'm  enjoying "Squeak: Learn Programming with Robots," by Stephane  
> Ducasse. It certainly seems to be a decent place to start.
>
> ----- Original Message ----
> From: Greg Smith <brucegregory at learnblender.com>
> To: beginners at lists.squeakfoundation.org
> Sent: Sunday, November 5, 2006 2:44:37 PM
> Subject: [Newbies] The Path From eToys To Squeak To SmallTalk - Or  
> The Other Way
>
> I've been a would be programmer for many years.  I'm one of those  
> people
> who just "does not get it".  I understand things like eToys and other
> visual "programming" environments but have much difficulty making the
> transition to true programming languages, since they are not visual  
> and
> usually not very natural, (intuitive), to a visual thinker.
>
> I know that learning SmallTalk would be the next step for me, but  
> there
> does not seem to be any documentation for the absolute beginner who
> knows nothing about programming and programming terminology, (classes,
> methods, functions, etc.).  Since SmallTalk makes its claim of being a
> _/truly/_ object oriented language, and it is at the heart of  
> Squeak, it
> makes sense for me to move in that direction.
>
> Where does the complete beginner begin with SmallTalk?  Too bad that
> eToys doesn't take the exercise a step further and also take the user
> from visual programmatic thinking into visual programmatic  
> programming,
> with learning SmallTalk as its goal.
>
> Thank you,
>
> Greg Smith
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