Squeak book

Joshua Marker lux at umich.edu
Wed Dec 30 20:07:34 UTC 1998



> How about a tutorial on Squeak from within Squeak on online on the web?
> A piece of static media like a book seems inappropriate for a such a
> dynamic system, doesn't it?

	It would be nice - I'm all for such a system, particularly
context-aware examples. I do think that it is a perfect match for such a
system, and is closest to a live-in tutor if it's designed well.
However, I still think there is a place for a pile of well-painted dead
trees. I can't take (well, most people can't) a squeak-capable box with
them in a cab, to lunch, etc. Too, I can't get people who don't already
have squeak to try a tutorial in squeak. 

	[Ed. note: Just saw the Squeak Pages for the first time. It's so easy
to miss such great resources! ]

	The system is dynamic, but some parts of it don't change (as quickly)
and they're the parts that make up the necessary bootstrap. They could
tolerate being put in a book that had pointers to the moving-target
information that wouldn't survive press.

	FWIW, there was a time when I would have walked over bodies to get a
few pages of overview/tutorial in theory of morphic (which I eventually discovered).

	Squeak Pearls? 
	BTW, I'm thinking of setting up (when I get my copy of WebObjects,
someday. . . ) a code-sample database. Ideally, with examples in
multiple languages linked to each other. Is any such beast extant?





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