Thanks. I'll check these out.
Stephen
On 04/07/2008, at 4:05 PM, Michael van der Gulik wrote:
On Fri, 4 Jul 2008 14:04:52 +0800
Stephen Ng <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Hi everyone,
First off, I am really new to smalltalk. I have tons of experience
with languages like C but have never made the move to OO type
languages.
Secondly, I've been reading up as much as I can on OO concepts and
perhaps I can say that I feel comfortable with smalltalk syntax. My
question is how does one start learning about the MVC or Morphic
interfaces in order to use smalltalk in writing programs that make
use
of lots of windows with text fields etc like in traditional business
systems? I cannot seem to find complete info on these topics. Many
tutorials just spend lots of time painting pretty lines and patterns
and fall short of showing someone like me how best to use the MVC,
Graphics-* or Morphic-* class categories and their classes. I
understand Morphic is the new wave as far as Squeak is concerned
and I
would be just as happy to use it. However, all the literature on the
web is really disparate and does not approach the subject in a
holistic way. I've even tried looking at the classes themselves in
the
Browser but the whole thing just gets very confusing.
I'd appreciate it if anyone can provide some pointers, direction,
literature (up to date with Squeak) etc.
Hi Stephen.
Welcome to the community!
For traditional business programs in Squeak, I think that Morphic is
the hard way to do it. I tried, made a bit of progress but then gave
up in disgust.
What I recommend is that you start from our documentation page - http://www.squeak.org/Documentation/
. The book to read is "Squeak By Example".
For business information system development, I'd recommend getting
in to web development using Seaside: http://www.seaside.st/. Your
applications in this environment will look a lot more professional
than they would in Morphic.
And do ask questions here, or join us on the IRC channel on
freenode.net, #squeak. Often there are people there :-).
Gulik.
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Michael van der Gulik <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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