I've created Yet Another Smalltalk First Steps tutorial.
This is intended as one of a series.
It is designed to be cross-platform across
Squeak 5 Pharo 4 Seaside 3.1 Cuis Dolphin 6
If you have experience running any of these systems on Windows, Linux or MacOS, please check to see if I have the instructions correct for your chosen pairing of Smalltalk and OS platform.
(As you'll see when you look, I do not have detailed instructions for aspects of MacOS).
The document is at: http://smalltalkinsmallsteps.blogspot.co.uk/2015/11/get-smalltalk-up-and-run...
(It's intended to move to a different blog after this review process).
I feel the need to do this as cross-Smalltalks tutorial because of findings and 4 charts I've placed at: http://smalltalkinsmallsteps.blogspot.co.uk/2015/11/mindshare-of-smalltalk-i...
Essentially, Smalltalk mindshare and use is incredibly tiny, compared to other languages in the same space. (We all know this, but seeing it represented graphically has a more visceral effect, IMO)
Aggregating interest in all the Smalltalks still does not bring more than a tiny proportion of the interest in, and use of, Ruby.
In turn, Ruby is (quite understandably) small in comparison to JavaScript.
Comparing interest in any specific Smalltalk is, predictably, smaller than the aggregate interest in Smalltalk.
Our community seems determined to split itself into smaller and smaller sub-communities. I think we do ourselves a disservice this way.
My initial contribution will be to try to provide some explicitly pan-Smalltalk beginners' tutorials, like this one.
Cheers, and happy Smalltalking, EuanM