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Who's to disagree with your aesthetic judgement? You're not wrong to like it, if you like it. I found it sufficiently obtuse that I walked away from my life's

• solarengineer 6y ago
  I was self-taught in Java, C and Foxpro, and then joined a company of Smalltalkers who had to transition to Java. They used Visual Age for Smalltalk and Visual Age for Java. For various reasons, for a few months at work, I had a really low end computer that couldn't run Visual Age for Java. (I couldn't afford a computer that could run Visual Age for Java/Smalltalk). However, I got to learn from some of the best Smalltalkers in the world. Thanks to the wonderful foundation they gave me in OOPs, I have since then been able grasp domains very well. In a different set of circumstances, I got to learn how agile and Test Driven Development work very well even in larger teams. I've worked on teams with 250 odd people from three different companies and two different timezones and cultures. Due to my current work, I get to see how horrible a person's experience can be with agile and with Test Driven Development. Today, I had an illuminating 90 minutes session on Complex Numbers. This was my second class online. After 30-odd years of being furious at Mathematics, I have now come to embrace it. I have concluded that the right mentorship and learning materials and experience can go a long way in helping make a topic exciting and interesting. Your hurt is evident. From what you have shared, it seems to be the absence of good tutorials that were a roadblock, and not Smalltalk or Visual Age for Smalltalk itself.