[Newbies] Teaching Smalltalk

Hannes Hirzel hannes.hirzel at gmail.com
Mon May 3 13:00:26 UTC 2010


Hello Samuel

I would include the link

 http://www.world.st/

The World of Smalltalk

Recently created web site, gives a good overview and has entry points
to further information.

This includes links to videos.

--Hannes

On 5/3/10, Samuel Williams <space.ship.traveller at gmail.com> wrote:
> Dear Friends,
>
> I'm looking for some help from the Smalltalk community. I hope this is the
> right place to ask for information.
>
> I'm putting together a website aimed at high school students and teachers,
> and would like to make sure the following page is as good as possible:
>
> 	http://programming.dojo.net.nz/languages/smalltalk/index
>
> In particular, "Why would I learn this language?" section needs to have a
> few paragraphs. I don't use Smalltalk so I hoped that you could provide the
> main reasons why Smalltalk is a language someone would want to learn about.
>
> It would also be great if someone could rewrite the Smalltalk source code
> example so that it is as close as possible to the C implementation:
>
> 	http://programming.dojo.net.nz/languages/c/index
>
> I understand that Smalltalk is very different from C, and uses different
> paradigms, so it doesn't have to be identical, however it would be great if
> it worked in generally the same way. It would be great if you could include
> comments explaining how it works and what is happening (like the C example).
>
> Any other suggestions or ideas for the Smalltalk page would be fantastic,
> and any suggestions to other pages in general is also very helpful.
>
> 	http://programming.dojo.net.nz/
>
> Kind regards,
> Samuel


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