Hi Sourav, Laurent's Pharocasts (http://www.pharocasts.com) are a great place to start. Here are a couple to get you started:
http://www.pharocasts.com/2010/08/install-pharo-on-windows.html http://www.pharocasts.com/2010/01/learn-smalltalk-with-profstef.html Good luck and welcome Nick On 5 May 2011 11:12, sourav roy <sourav_ph...@in.com> wrote: > Hi Toon, > > I agree to what have you said but as i am a beginner to smalltalk i need > lot of help to get a good grip over it and moreover unlike other mainstream > languages there are not much documents or professional from which i can get > some guidance about it. And i feel as Smalltalk is quite vast and different > in structure from the other mail(with my two month experiance and i may be > wrong), a beginner needs some proper guidance to get his hands over > smalltalk. So, i just request you to kindly guide me to how should i get > into smalltalk. > > Thanks&Regards, > > Sourav > > > ---------- Original message ---------- > From:"Toon Verwaest"< toon.verwa...@gmail.com > > Date: 5 May 11 13:29:11 > Subject: Re: [Pharo-project] Popularity of Smalltalk in Software Industry > To: pharo-project@lists.gforge.inria.fr > > Hi, > > I can tell you that independent of how the industry might perceive the > language Smalltalk, learning Smalltalk will make you personally a better > software engineer. And this is what the industry does want. You will look at > programming from a new angle and this will give you an edge. > > This is also true for learning other old languages like Scheme or Lisp. As > long as you stay within your Java / .NET bubble you will be one in a > billion. If you learn Smalltalk, the fact you know something that other > people might not makes you more special. The only negative part of learning > Smalltalk while working on other types of applications is that you will eat > your shoe 95% of the time hating that Java / .NET aren't more ev olved and > flexible :) > > > As it seems that you are already working on a project revolving around > Smalltalk, be very happy that you are getting the opportunity to learn it; > you'll come out for the better. > > Lastly, don't care too much about popularity within industry. If you take > the time to learn the systems for yourself you will probably learn to > understand the differences yourself. You are currently also part of industry > and obviously don't know Smalltalk well yet; how informed was your decision > to not know Smalltalk? You are part of "the industry" making other people > not choose Smalltalk based on your (non-)choice of not using Smalltalk; if > they would all think this way! Sheep won't change anything :) > > cheers, > Toon > > On 05/05/2011 07:38 AM, sourav roy wrote: > > > Hi All, > > I have just started my career in Software/IT industry and got into a > project which involes enhancement/maintainance of product built in > Smalltalk. > > I was never exposed to this language before and have no idea if it is used > in the Industry as popularly as JAVA and .NET and looks like its a DEAD > > language for the industry. I may be wrong but i need some clarification > about it. > > > I just want to know that why smalltalk is not so popular as the other OOPs > Languages and what is the future prospect of > > one if he/she is into Smalltalk development. > > Looking for some positive note so that it may give me some entho for > working with Smalltalk. > > Thanks&Regards, > > Sourav Roy > > > Get Yourself a cool, short *@in.com* Email ID > now!<http://mail.in.com/mails/new_reg.php?utm_source=invite&utm_medium=outgoing> > > > > > Get Yourself a cool, short *@in.com* Email ID > now!<http://mail.in.com/mails/new_reg.php?utm_source=invite&utm_medium=outgoing> >
