Doc team April/May report

subbukk subbukk at gmail.com
Thu Jun 7 09:06:05 UTC 2007


On Thursday 07 June 2007 6:36 am, Matthew Fulmer wrote:
> Also this month, I re-arranged the tutorial list I have been
> building to be more navigable: http://wiki.squeak.org/squeak/792
> ...
> Suggestions are always welcome. Keep on Squeaking. 
When I started with Squeak, I got really frustrated with 'static' 
documents/books that soon got dated, links that went nowhere and so on. The 
terminology was cryptic with difficult to map metaphors. The break came when 
I started using Squeak itself as a live document and started filing in code 
snippets. 'debug it' was a godsend. Learning by exploring served my needs 
very well. Experts, with their great one-liners, hastened the pace.

Squeak is very different from other systems which separate programming into 
separate actions with separate tools. Squeak acts like a tightly integrated 
computer. IMHO, bundling an image with 'how to' projects (like squeakland 
projects) would the way to go. This could be supplemented by code snippets 
that could be filed in and observed to learn programming. Squeakland's 
glossary.pdf deserves far better than "0 google hits".

Regards .. Subbu



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