My First Doc Contribution

Dan Shafer dshafer at yahoo.com
Tue Apr 10 17:12:24 UTC 2001


Mark Guzdial's book has a good section on the debugger. Worth buying for lots
of other stuff, too.

--- John Hinsley <jhinsley at telinco.co.uk> wrote:
> Dan Shafer wrote:
> > 
> > Well, it took you about 10% as many hours as it took me, so progress
> exists!
> > 
> > I'm listening to the feedback about the "blind alley" stuff. Generally,
> reader
> > feedback has continued to encourage me to do that but I'm certainly open to
> > removing it if it seems distracting.
> 
> No, don't remove it: after all, Smalltalk should be about fun and joy
> and experimentation, but I'd certainly find it less distracting if it
> was somehow included but compartmentalised.
> 
> I wonder of you could recommend an enjoyable tutorial on the Smalltalk
> debugger: the one I'm currently using (from the Open University M206
> course) takes me back to the bad old days of learning (or trying to
> learn) C from people whose favourite trick, on the first day, was to put
> a slide and say "as you'll see, this trivial peice of code is a pointer
> to a 5 dimensional array of pointers. But we'll cover that tomorrow...."
> 
> > 
> > I love your closing line: May the Morph Be With You. I may steal it. :-)
> 
> But of course!
> 
> John
> 
> > > May the morph be with you!
> > > --
> > >
> >
>
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> > > Proudhon: "Because all proper tea is theft."
> > >
> >
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