I'm desperate to make use of Smalltalk. Steps followed: downloaded Squeak,
updated up to 3.2alpha #4441, got about 120 pages (printouts) worth of
tutorials and then I'm keen on starting. Jason Steffler has this nice
readalong tutorial where I tried per instructions to create a polygon from
point so and so upto point so and so, width this and "color := Color red" .
. .  Squeak tells me - "MessageNotUnderstood: red" .  The rest of that tut.
helped nadda 'cause I could get no further than the first few lines of
coding.
Next Tutorial:    I'm suppose to type in -    playground := Playground new.
charlie := playground add: Circle new. etc.    Firstly Squeak tells me that
playground will be declared a global variable, which I suppose is fine, so I
accept. Then famous last words it seems: "MessageNotUnderstood: new "
Is this some odd ploy against M$ that I have to use seeing as 100% of my
clients uses it, or am I sooo big a nuckfut that I'm not suppose to grasp
Squeak which any person from 3 to 180 can use do develop in? I really wish I
can get help that will really get me up and running. Here in South Africa it
seems like I'm hte only person who will be using Smalltalk, so no books from
bookstores available, and as I don't have a credit card, I'm not able to buy
online either... I stuck with tutorials that works only as readalong options
it seems. Anybody????