On Tue, Dec 13, 2011 at 1:36 PM, Lawson English <lenglish5 at cox.net> wrote:

> That sounds really great.
>
> However, there are some broken bits in Squeak that will make learning
> Smalltalk difficult.
>
> Most simple and important example I have right now is the well-known issue
> that the VM will freeze indefinitely if you input a long running
> calculation, e.g. x := 100000 factorial. The interrupt key doesn't work,
> usually.  Newbies like me, like to experiment, and if the VM freezes with
> every typo, then its hardly worth using.
>

This is interesting because it does *not* freeze in my Qwaq-derived work
image.  Here the interrupt key works perfectly with no delay.  I'll see if
I can investigate.  Andreas, do you recall doing anything to the debugger
to fix issues like this in the Qwaq system?


> That is the feedback I'm getting from my videos.
>
> L.
>
> On 12/13/11 8:31 AM, Michael Perscheid wrote:
>
>> Hi all,
>>
>> it's a pleasure for me to announce the Koans tutorial project for
>> teaching beginners the basics of Smalltalk. Inspired by the Edgecase Ruby
>> Koans project and the original "The little Lisper" book by Daniel P.
>> Friedman and Matthias Felleisen, we have implemented Smalltalk Koans in
>> order to help our students to get started with Smalltalk.
>>
>> Smalltalk Koans will guide you as a Smalltalk novice from first steps in
>> Smalltalk to your first small project. The path is simple: You get a task,
>> you solve it and, in the process, learn something. The Koans Sensei (jap.:
>> teacher) will be your guide and introduce you to fundamental concepts in
>> Smalltalk such as strings, blocks, collections and many more.
>>
>> After a first internal use, we'd like to announce that we make this
>> tutorial project available for the community.
>>
>> https://www.hpi.uni-potsdam.**de/hirschfeld/trac/**
>> SqueakCommunityProjects/wiki/**smalltalk_koans<https://www.hpi.uni-potsdam.de/hirschfeld/trac/SqueakCommunityProjects/wiki/smalltalk_koans>
>>
>> Especially, we'd like to acknowledge our student assistants, Eric
>> Seckler, Robin Schreiber, and Partick Rein for implementing Koans in
>> Smalltalk.
>>
>> If you have any wishes for new lectures and feedback to existing ones,
>> please let us know.
>>
>> Best regards,
>> Michael
>>
>>
>
>


-- 
best,
Eliot
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