[Newbies] Re: Beginners Digest, Vol 92, Issue 9
David Holiday
neuburge at rohan.sdsu.edu
Sat Dec 28 05:56:39 UTC 2013
Hi Casey and Herbert,
The link to the 'announcements' entry in the squeak wiki is dead. Is there another? That is indeed something like what I was looking for. I figured I could iterate through a list but for large lists will there not be a performance hit?
David Holiday
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San Diego State University
neuburge at rohan.sdsu.edu
On Dec 27, 2013, at 6:11 PM, beginners-request at lists.squeakfoundation.org wrote:
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> 3. Re: Is there a way to broadcast messages to more than one
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> Date: Fri, 27 Dec 2013 13:53:29 +0100
> From: Herbert K?nig <herbertkoenig at gmx.net>
> Subject: Re: [Newbies] Is There A Tutorial for People Who Have Never
> Programmed?
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> Hello William,
>
> there is a book named "Learn programming with robots" which is aimed at
> teaching programming with Squeak.
> The book can be obtained via Amazon and google turned up this page for
> download.
> https://gforge.inria.fr/frs/download.php/10764/BotsInc-OriginalEnglish.pdf
>
> Then there is Squeak by example which is meant to teach Squeak but
> assumes some programming experience.
>
> In both cases find the accompanying Squeak images. This is because
> Squeak evolves and for newcomers it's important that the examples just
> work. Although finding out why an example did not work is a great
> learning achievement people are usually good at providing enough not
> working examples for themselves. :-)
>
> The site Casey recommended is a great resource, it can be found here.
> http://stephane.ducasse.free.fr/FreeBooks.html
>
> But you have to be a bit careful because of the differences in Smalltalk
> dialects. Which means not every example will work unmodified in a
> current Squeak image.
>
> Other than that there are Etoys and Scratch which are based on Squeak
> but provide a graphical introduction (tile programming) into programming.
>
> And finding an answer to Casey's question, a project that interests you,
> may get you some more results.
>
> Cheers,
>
> Herbert
>
> Am 27.12.2013 06:44, schrieb william murphy:
>> Hello,
>>
>> If I have never programmed before but want to learn to program with
>> Squeak, which tutorial should I read?
>>
>> Thank you,
>>
>> Will
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> As far as I can tell, messages have to be directed at a single recipient. Is this the case or, for example, is it possible to blast a message to every member of an Array at the same time?
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> From: Herbert K?nig <herbertkoenig at gmx.net>
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> Hi David,
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> short answer:
> anArray do: [:each| each message].
>
> One of the things to learn about Smalltalk is it's rich collection protocol.
>
> The fact that I use do: might hint that I should reread the protocol of
> collections, there maybe something more elegant :-))
>
> Cheers
>
> Herbert
>
> Am 27.12.2013 20:15, schrieb David Holiday:
>> As far as I can tell, messages have to be directed at a single
>> recipient. Is this the case or, for example, is it possible to blast a
>> message to every member of an Array at the same time?
>>
>>
>> David Holiday
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>> neuburge at rohan.sdsu.edu <mailto:neuburge at rohan.sdsu.edu>
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> I think I heard about something like what you seem to want a bit ago called
> Announcements. Objects can "sign up" to be notified of a particular event.
> I dug up a wiki page about it.
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> http://wiki.squeak.org/squeak/5734
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> Hope this helps,
>
> Casey
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> On Fri, Dec 27, 2013 at 11:44 AM, Herbert König <herbertkoenig at gmx.net>wrote:
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>> Hi David,
>>
>> short answer:
>> anArray do: [:each| each message].
>>
>> One of the things to learn about Smalltalk is it's rich collection
>> protocol.
>>
>> The fact that I use do: might hint that I should reread the protocol of
>> collections, there maybe something more elegant :-))
>>
>> Cheers
>>
>> Herbert
>>
>> Am 27.12.2013 20:15, schrieb David Holiday:
>>
>> As far as I can tell, messages have to be directed at a single recipient.
>> Is this the case or, for example, is it possible to blast a message to
>> every member of an Array at the same time?
>>
>>
>> David Holiday
>> -------------------------------------------------
>> San Diego State University
>> neuburge at rohan.sdsu.edu
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