Looking for good souls
Nagy Attila
attis at gizi.dote.hu
Sat Apr 22 09:07:43 UTC 2006
Hi Herbert!
Shyness, I think that's quite a barrier to cross when you're new to a
community. And when I see people speaking about Croquet and HOM (none of
which I have managed to grasp the essence of), indeed I am a bit
discouraged to ask questions like "how do I create a simple input window?"
Splitting the community wouldn't be much of a problem, I think, as the
experienced squeakers can also take part in the new list, which would be
for the benefit of both them and the newcomers.
As you said:
> The people doing the work of developing Squeak don't stumble about
> what bugs a newbie anymore.
Exactly that's what I think. And I think that is why there aren't enough
good tutorials out there.
And again, I think the splitting of the community would not be that much
of a problem, if the new list would be successful at levelling up the
newcomers to the point where they are able to take part in the main dev
list's discussions.
Herbert König írta:
> Hello Attis,
>
> NA> I am a newcomer to the world of Squeak and Smalltalk, but already an
> NA> experienced programmer in some other languages (including Java, which I
> NA> think I'll never use again :) ) I would like to dive into developing
> NA> useful applications in Squeak, but don't really know where to start,
> NA> right now I am trying to familiarize myself with Morphic programming.
> NA> So, if this collective of Good Souls is together, I'd be the first one
> NA> to sign up to the new squeak-starters list. Thanks for the great idea -
> NA> sounds just like what I've been looking for!
>
> just go ahead, I guess I'm new enough to remember how I felt in the
> beginning. And my background is like yours. (Except for Java :-)
>
> Actually there is a drawback in a newbie list. It splits up the
> community.
>
> The people doing the work of developing Squeak don't stumble about
> what bugs a newbie anymore.
>
> So mail me in private, wait for the new list or just ask here!
>
>
> Cheers
>
> Herbert mailto:herbertkoenig at gmx.net
>
>
>
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