I had no prior experience running Pharo. I wanted to see what all this was about, so I downloaded and ran the launcher (the windows one, since that's what I'd

I had no prior experience running Pharo. I wanted to see what all this was about, so I downloaded and ran the launcher (the windows one, since that's what I'd expect most people to be using). It starts with no images. Does Launch work anyway? No. How about New? That lets me select pharo versions. What happens if I pick regular pharo 11? It looks like it's downloading. What happens if I Launch that? Success. Once the image is run, a "welcome" window appears (which you can get back to, if you already closed it, through the Help menu). The first two panes are a brief description and theme setting. The third pane is how to learn pharo, which lists a few resources and then tells me I can learn Pharo by clicking on the ProStef link. I do. ProStef tells me to highlight the text below and right click and select "do it". It takes me a couple tries because I'm curious what happens if I select one word or the other. Learned: the entire expression has to be highlighted before telling Pharo to run it works, and both words were part of the expression. The tutorial proceeds fairly obviously from there, teaching print and inspect. Some additional experimentation reveals that selecting the entire page runs everything, kind of like you might be used to in an IDE that sends things to a repl, and double clicking before the first character on a line selects the whole line. If you're expecting the sort of tutorial where a guide not only tells you what to do, but shows you what to do before you do it to avoid any ambiguity, so that all you have to do is mimic it, ProfStef isn't that, but mimicry is a weaker form of learning. I'm not sure I'll like Pharo, but the tutorial looks like it starts okay to me. The launcher takes a moment to figure out, but if it's so difficult how do you get anything done that you've never done before?