A Squeak version of "How to Think Like a Computer Scientist"

Aaron J Reichow reic0024 at d.umn.edu
Tue Jan 29 17:54:43 UTC 2002


On Tue, 29 Jan 2002, Stephane Ducasse wrote:

> We are in the process to see how our french book on Squeak could be
> translated into english.
>
> I can tell you that we payed an extreme attention to present Squeak well and
> this is better than this open book.
> Ask the french speaking people in the list about that ;)

An English version would be wonderful.  However, I still think a Squeaked
version of this open book would still be valuable.  Your book seems to be
focused on Squeak as a system, with all of it's capabilities and
applications.  This HTLCS is a bit more focused on a classical approach to
any regular programming language, something I think the Squeak world
sorely needs.

I've tried to introduce people to Squeak, some with prior CS/programming
knowledge, some with out, and were often dismayed by the lack of something
straight-up about the language itself.  This book would be good for the
Java, perl, C++ programmer who you tell "try Squeak,"  and whom you wish
to equip with the basic language and code-browsing skills so they can
learn about the system as they want.  That's the way I tend to approach a
new language.

Regards,
Aaron

  Aaron Reichow  ::  UMD ACM Pres  ::  http://www.d.umn.edu/~reic0024/
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