[Seaside] On playing with tutorial 1

[Tim Rowledge]

I've just run through tutorial 1. I'm deliberately commenting before
even looking at number 2, so if any of my points are addressed therein,
just let me find out when I get to it.

My first thought was "what? I have to manually type html? Bugger". The
problem is that it's so tedious trying to find that missing $", or $>
that is making something very wierd turn up in your browser (or not, on
occasion).

Secondly, I'm very perturbed by the idea of using a 'path' syntax to
rape and molest objects as in the [each.value] phrase. What happened to
message sends?

Tutorial style note; I suggest making instance variable names NOT
thesame as the messages used to retrieve them. This is something I found
over several years of teaching Smalltalk to be a very forcible reminder
to students that there is a message sned involved not a 'pointer
dereference' or any of that C crap.

Fourth; hey, it's cool that any of this stuff works :-) It runs just
dandy on my seven year old 200MHz ARM machine. Who needs a 2GHz x86
electron sucker?

OK, on to tutorial 2

tim

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