[Newbies] Re: Beginners Digest, Vol 92, Issue 9

David Holiday neuburge at rohan.sdsu.edu
Sat Dec 28 05:57:49 UTC 2013


oops - disregard on the dead link. turns out my internet connection got wonky :-p


David Holiday 
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neuburge at rohan.sdsu.edu






On Dec 27, 2013, at 6:11 PM, beginners-request at lists.squeakfoundation.org wrote:

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>   1. Re: Is There A Tutorial for People Who Have Never	Programmed?
>      (Herbert K?nig)
>   2. Is there a way to broadcast messages to more than one
>      recipient? (David Holiday)
>   3. Re: Is there a way to broadcast messages to more than one
>      recipient? (Herbert K?nig)
>   4. Re: Is there a way to broadcast messages to more than one
>      recipient? (Casey Ransberger)
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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>
> Subject: Re: [Newbies] Is there a way to broadcast messages to more
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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 :-))
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> Cheers
> 
> Herbert
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> 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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> 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.
> 
> 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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