Grant Rettke wrote:
Does that book cover the features of the development environment itself? Is it the white or the blue Guzdial book?
I've found with other communities surrounding a long-running (old) technology that everyone sort of takes for granted "how easy it is to use the tool". However, folks brand new to both Squeak and Smalltalk, while at the same time being well experienced in other languages, are often presented with advice like "read the source code". Come on, give me a break. You need a guide telling you how to use source code control, create and modify classes, run stuff, and refactor stuff. There is nothing like that, though, and a lot of people give upon Squeak becase you have to piece together information from ten different web pages. The lists are really helpful, but still, you need a simple place to start. Most people haven't got the time to invest in "discovering" everything on their own.
I still promote the book "Squeak A Quick Trip to ObjectLand" (Addison Wesley) for a simple place to start.
Also, I don't know if anyone pointed you to the free books:
http://www.iam.unibe.ch/~ducasse/FreeBooks.html
These links may also be helpful (sorry if someone already posted them:
http://wiki.squeak.org/squeak/792 - Squeak Tutorials http://wiki.squeak.org/squeak/5810 - Hitchhikers Guide to Squeak http://wiki.squeak.org/squeak/377 - Introductions to Squeak http://wiki.squeak.org/squeak/4 - Basic Squeak Development Tools http://wiki.squeak.org/squeak/2983 - Documentation
On 1/23/07, Mark Bailey Mark.Bailey@sas.com wrote:
While not a training course per se, you might look into Mark Guzdial's books ("Squeak" is in the title) and the associated materials found on his Web site. They lead you through much of Squeak, although an earlier version. _______________________________________________ Beginners mailing list Beginners@lists.squeakfoundation.org http://lists.squeakfoundation.org/mailman/listinfo/beginners
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