On 25 March 2011 06:48, Daniel Lyons <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi, > > I have two questions, a technical one and a more general one. > > In broad strokes, what are people doing for GUIs? My guess would be using > Morphic, but googling around you find more abuse than use, it looks like, and > very little live links to up-to-date documentation. It makes me wonder: is > there something other than Morphic which is being used? Or is everyone doing > web apps? Or is there some other GUI toolkit I haven't found yet, and that's > where all the action is? Whenever I see a neat Morphic window or something, I > feel a bit like there's a party going on somewhere and I didn't get an > invitation. Like the first rule of Morphic club is you don't talk about > Morphic club. > > The general question I have is basically, am I the problem? Is it that the > documentation isn't where I expect to find it, or in the form I'm used to > seeing, or that it isn't relevant somehow in the Smalltalk universe? Or is it > all really intuitive except for me? :) I could accept that, I suppose, but > how did you Smalltalk wizards become wizards? Did you just dive in and start > reading the code in your own image?
in most cases. And reading mailing lists , asking questions .. >Was there some master Smalltalk wizard that you knew who showed you how to do >these things? Just ask questions, read answers. It works here. :) Our community is quite inviting to newcomers and we help each other. That's what i discovered when i first came to squeak community (Pharo was not formed at those days). >I'm currently reading Smalltalk Best Practice Patterns and it's one of the >best programming books I've ever read. I see that there is a great deal of >mastery of programming going around in Smalltalk circles, but I don't see the >books that take you past beginner towards master, other than SBPP. So what's >the trick going on here? How did you guys become excellent? > By reading code and writing code, exchanging ideas and communicating :) > I hope none of this comes across as negative; I think surely it's that I'm > missing something. > > Thanks, > > — > Daniel Lyons > > -- Best regards, Igor Stasenko AKA sig.
