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You want me to use Smalltalk? OK I downloaded Squeak and plaed ayound with the cute MINI-OS-GUI-platform-thing. Ok very different from what I had done before.

by schtog 18y ago

You want me to use Smalltalk? OK I downloaded Squeak and plaed ayound with the cute MINI-OS-GUI-platform-thing. Ok very different from what I had done before. Seemed to make easy stuff hard. Of course that could just be me not being used to that type of programming. How long does it take to learn Squeak, I mean to really learn effectively? Is there a way to use Smalltalk as an ordinary programming language? Is there somewhere I can go to download and get going fast?

jcromartie 18y ago
Squeak has a learning curve, that's for sure. The language itself it easy, but the environment is so different that it takes some getting used to. I would recommend Squeak By Example (http://squeakbyexample.org/ http://squeakbyexample.org/).
omouse 18y ago
Your whole environment is there. Your editor, and your API documents are the objects themselves. Open up a browser in the Squeak environment and start clicking around. Open up a workspace and a transcript and write some samples that use the classes you find in the browser.
parenthesis 18y ago
> Is there a way to use Smalltalk as an ordinary programming language? Try: http://smalltalk.gnu.org/ http://smalltalk.gnu.org/
hernan7 18y ago
"How long does it take to learn Squeak, I mean to really learn effectively?" 5 years. Full time. At MIT. In 1983.