I did lesson 2 of the tutorial the other day and didn't have any problems.
Iam using the OLPC Squeak image. I put the project on my Squeak website: http://squeak.pbwiki.com/My%20Squeak%20projects
What I did was to create 2 text with border objects by dragging them out of the Object catalog. Rename to In1 and Out1. Open viewers on each. Drag a scripting tile out of Out1. Drag a "Out1 characters <--abc" tile out of the viewer and put in the script. From the In1 viewer, drag the tile "In1's characters" and drop it on top of the abc tile in the script. If you fire the script now, it will copy the text from In1 to Out1. The rest of the tutorial just adds functionality. Click in scripts menu icon and select view as text. Now you can type Smalltalk code into the script. Once you accept your change, you cannot go back to viewing your script as tiles. This menu also lets you create a button to fire the script.
Being a newbie myself, I have been putting Squeak info and tutorials that I find on my Squeak wiki. Take a look around and feel free to contribute.
Dave Raftery http://squeak.pbwiki.com/
Forging on ahead, I tried lesson #2. This seems to be a very important lesson: Create two boxes, put some text in one, push a button and transfer it over to the other. Several useful concepts here.
But the tutorial doesn't work for me. I can't make sense out of what is supposed to be dragged where. The text doesn't agree with the pictures, and vice versa. I'm sure I've tried all possible combinations.
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