[Squeakland] Real beginner's questions!

Alan Kay Alan.Kay at squeakland.org
Thu Mar 25 21:30:48 PST 2004


Hi Shelagh --

At 1:53 PM +1100 3/26/04, Shelagh Manton wrote:
>In the various books on Squeak and Smalltalk that I've read, they 
>use a vertical stroke to delineate variables. where is this on my 
>keyboard?

It's usually on the right hand side above the return key. It should 
show on the keyboard of any PC or Mac.

>  Is it a character that changes in Squeak when you type it like the 
>underscore?

No. It's a regular character.

I can tell by your question that you are not looking at the Squeak 
Etoys, which is what the Squeakland site and this mailing list is 
about. If you haven't done much or any programming before, you might 
find a really great start by doing the etoys stuff. Get the book 
"Powerful ideas in the classroom" or look at the tutorials on the 
site and try the examples.

If you have had some experience programming and want to learn the 
full blown Squeak, then the site is Squeak.org, and there are many 
books available about how to program both in Smalltalk in general, 
and in Squeak in particular.

Cheers,

Alan

>
>Shelagh (who has decided that even if my son does not want to use 
>squeak I do )
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