Consider perhaps:

	(StringMorph contents: 'hello world') openInHand

   -- Scott


At 10:25 AM -0800 1/29/02, Ned Konz wrote:
>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?)