on 29/01/02 6:54 PM, Aaron J Reichow at reic0024 at d.umn.edu wrote:

> 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.

Sure. I'm in contact with students from burkina faso and they cannot afford
buying a book. So this is definitively something important. I planned to
translate in english the columns I wrote in french and give them to squeak
news. But if somebody wants to use them for this open source book I have no
problem with that.

For the examples, I have 80 pages of exercises available for free in my web
pages in VW but the VW aspect is little. So people can use it as a base.
I also have 400 slides of my lectures online. People can use that also.


 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.

Yes 
 
> 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.

I agree. I would love to see qa book Squeak for the Java programmer too.
> Regards,
> Aaron
> 
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