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

Ned Konz ned at bike-nomad.com
Tue Jan 29 18:25:21 UTC 2002


On Monday 28 January 2002 08:19 pm, Aaron J Reichow wrote:
> Is there another person or two who would be interested in giving me
> a hand to Squeakify this text, introducing a Squeak book that would be
> pretty comprehensive for beginners?

And so we see yet another computer programming intro that starts with "hello 
world"...

How would one present that in Squeak?

* get to the world menu, or to the Tools pane, or to the Objects tool
* open a Transcript (from the menu), or drag out a Transcript
* open a Workspace, or drag out a Workspace
* type in something like:

Transcript show: 'hello world'

* select it, or hit alt-d (or cmd-d, depending on whether you have a mac)
* now look in the transcript 

As you see, the focus is suddenly more on the environment than on the 
language. This isn't surprising, of course, given that one of the most 
important parts of Squeak is the envirionment.

But the focus of the book is on the language; I wonder how well Squeak would 
fit in to this book form.

Also, it doesn't seem like this presentation would show Squeak's best side 
(that is, why print text into the Transcript when one could make things move?)

-- 
Ned Konz
currently: Stanwood, WA
email:     ned at bike-nomad.com
homepage:  http://bike-nomad.com



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