Thanks to everyone involved in the process of getting the latest Squeak by Example published. As a part-time Squeaker, I rely on documentation to help me when I am trying to make things work and SBE is a good starting point!
jrm
On Thu, Jul 20, 2023 at 2:45 PM christoph.thiede@student.hpi.uni-potsdam.de wrote:
Hi all!
We are happy to announce a new edition of the Squeak by Example book today!
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Squeak by Example is an introductory book about the Squeak/Smalltalk programming language and environment, guiding students and developers through the environment, language, tools, and the Morphic framework by means of a series of examples and exercises.
The new 6.0 edition includes the following highlights:
- Complements the Squeak 6.0 release
- High-resolution screenshots
- New chapter about source control tools
- Covers several additional tools (such as the package pane browser,
breakpoints, profiling tools, and more)
- Extends description of several classes and protocols (Collections,
Exceptions, copying, literals, and more)
- Extends description of several tools (debugger, inspector, and search
tools)
- Updates code examples and makes them available on SqueakSource
- Updates FAQs and links to further resources
- Various improvements throughout the book (revised index, improved
screenshots, fine-tuned layout & typography, ... thanks to all our attentive reviewers!)
We hope you enjoy reading this book! SBE is a free and open book and is maintained on GitHub [1], so any kind of contribution (errata, improvements, new contents, etc.) is most welcome - just file an issue or drop us an email.
Happy Squeaking!
Best, Patrick and Christoph
[1] https://github.com/hpi-swa-lab/SqueakByExample-english
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