Can't account for Jason's tutorial.  I suspect it is for some other 
dialect of Smalltalk.  Where did you find it?

The expression "Color red" should work just fine, so outside the context 
of your workspace, I can't account for the message.

The class "Playground" doesn't exist in Squeak, so it's no surprise.

Suggest that you start with the sites pointed to by the Squeak.org 
website and the swiki.


On Thursday, October 25, 2001, at 02:45  PM, compufriend wrote:

> I'm desperate to make use of Smalltalk. Steps followed: downloaded 
> Squeak,
> updated up to 3.2alpha #4441, got about 120 pages (printouts) worth of
> tutorials and then I'm keen on starting. Jason Steffler has this nice
> readalong tutorial where I tried per instructions to create a polygon 
> from
> point so and so upto point so and so, width this and "color := Color 
> red" .
> . .  Squeak tells me - "MessageNotUnderstood: red" .  The rest of that 
> tut.
> helped nadda 'cause I could get no further than the first few lines of
> coding.
> Next Tutorial:    I'm suppose to type in -    playground := Playground 
> new.
> charlie := playground add: Circle new. etc.    Firstly Squeak tells me 
> that
> playground will be declared a global variable, which I suppose is fine, 
> so I
> accept. Then famous last words it seems: "MessageNotUnderstood: new "
> Is this some odd ploy against M$ that I have to use seeing as 100% of my
> clients uses it, or am I sooo big a nuckfut that I'm not suppose to 
> grasp
> Squeak which any person from 3 to 180 can use do develop in? I really 
> wish I
> can get help that will really get me up and running. Here in South 
> Africa it
> seems like I'm hte only person who will be using Smalltalk, so no books 
> from
> bookstores available, and as I don't have a credit card, I'm not able 
> to buy
> online either... I stuck with tutorials that works only as readalong 
> options
> it seems. Anybody????
>
>
>