This is one of the problems with Smalltalk in general, as I see it. 
There's a ton of documentation available on Smalltalk, not just Squeak. 
But when you're starting out, you don't want all that. You need a 
straight forward, single, starting point to get going.

The stic group, through the smalltalk-central.com site is trying to 
centralize a lot of Smalltalk information into one place for people 
curious about Smalltalk.

Right now, in the tutorials sections on smalltalk-central.com, there 
are inumerable tutorials on squeak and aspects of squeak. Where does a 
newbie start?

It would be nice to get a squeak tutorial that is concise, 
well-written, well-formatted and designed for the beginner. If nothing 
else, so he doesn't have to wade through 50 tutorials to get started.

Eric

On Sep 21, 2006, at 2:06 AM, Matthew Fulmer wrote:

> After some discussion with bmp on #squeak, I have decided to
> start writing a tutorial on squeak. bmp told me that the best
> way to proceed with this task is to take all the documentation
> available on the swiki [1] and massively refactor it into book
> form.
>
> I am a squeak noob, and I cannot do this alone. I have created
> an outline of my proposal [2] on the swiki. If you have a better
> idea, please say so. I really want to get involved with this
> amazing project. This will be a great way for us noobs to
> contribute and learn about squeak.
>
> [1] http://minnow.cc.gatech.edu/squeak
> [1] http://minnow.cc.gatech.edu/squeak/5870
>
> -- 
> Matthew Fulmer
>