[Newbies] Re: Nothing's working

[Chris Kassopulo]

On Fri, 09 May 2008 17:15:11 -0600, Lee Nixon wrote:

> When I first got Squeak last night I took a quick look at it and was
> quite impressed--thought it had a lot of potential not only for the
> project I currently want to do, but  I could see possibilities for quite
> a few others as well.  So this morning I got a copy of 'Squeak by
> Example', skimmed over the 'hello' and 'add two plus two' sections and
> started in on the first simple program 'Quinto'.
>         Yeeeeks!!
>    Nothing--absolutely <nothing.> ---  works the way the author
> describes it.  I did get a few things to work, but I had to piddle
> around (click on this, click on that) to get it done.  Other than that
> -- whenever I follow the instructions in the book  --all I get is
> messages telling me I did something wrong. It wasn't <me> that did
> something wrong here, people!  I've been following instructions line by
> line, word by word, and letter by letter. What gives here?

Hi Lee,

Read this thread http://tinyurl.com/5uyboy

Chris