I think what I really need to do is to get over the initial 'hump' of building squeak applications. I need to go beyond the normal 'bank account' example so that I can see how to put together something more complex. I will try the books.
What about taking a training course in another dialect e.g Cincom Smalltalk. How transferable would that be?
Thanks AB
It would help to know where you are geographically - perhaps someone could meet you.
-Todd Blanchard
On Jan 23, 2007, at 10:36 AM, andy.burnett@knowinnovation.com wrote:
I think what I really need to do is to get over the initial 'hump' of building squeak applications. I need to go beyond the normal 'bank account' example so that I can see how to put together something more complex. I will try the books.
What about taking a training course in another dialect e.g Cincom Smalltalk. How transferable would that be?
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On Wednesday 24 January 2007 07:36, andy.burnett@knowinnovation.com wrote:
I think what I really need to do is to get over the initial 'hump' of building squeak applications. I need to go beyond the normal 'bank account' example so that I can see how to put together something more complex. I will try the books.
What about taking a training course in another dialect e.g Cincom Smalltalk. How transferable would that be?
I found the documentation which came with Cincom Smalltalk to be invaluable in getting over the 'hump'. In particular the daily 'screencasts' by James Robertson. Like much information about software written by seasoned experts there are a number of places where he forgets that what comes naturally and without any conscious thought to him is, for a brand new learner, a vital fact. But that is a fact of life when trying to learn any complex software system.
http://www.cincomsmalltalk.com/userblogs/cincom/blogView?content=smalltalk_d...
I don't know if anything similar based around squeak even exists.
-- CS
From: Christopher Sawtell csawtell@paradise.net.nz Reply-To: "A friendly place to get answers to even the most basic questionsabout Squeak." beginners@lists.squeakfoundation.org To: "A friendly place to get answers to even the most basic questions aboutSqueak." beginners@lists.squeakfoundation.org Subject: Re: [Newbies] Thank you for all your training/learning thoughts Date: Wed, 24 Jan 2007 11:56:45 +1300
On Wednesday 24 January 2007 07:36, andy.burnett@knowinnovation.com wrote:
What about taking a training course in another dialect e.g Cincom Smalltalk. How transferable would that be?
I found the documentation which came with Cincom Smalltalk to be invaluable in getting over the 'hump'. In particular the daily 'screencasts' by James Robertson. Like much information about software written by seasoned experts there are a number of places where he forgets that what comes naturally and without any conscious thought to him is, for a brand new learner, a vital fact. But that is a fact of life when trying to learn any complex software system.
http://www.cincomsmalltalk.com/userblogs/cincom/blogView?content=smalltalk_d...
I don't know if anything similar based around squeak even exists.
There are Squeak videos at: http://www.iam.unibe.ch/~ducasse/Videos/ Hopefully, this is what you are looking for?
-Larry Trutter
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