On Tue, Dec 5, 2017 at 5:49 AM, horrido <horrido.hobb...@gmail.com> wrote: > Understood. I'm working on a Pharo Quick Start guide. If it passes muster > with you guys, you may want to link to it, or incorporate its contents into > the pharo.org website.
Sure let us know. > However, I've stumbled on an odd obstacle: downloading and running the > Default GNU/Linux zip file. According to the Linux installation page, and I > quote: > > Version 6.1 for several common GNU/Linux configurations. The zip files > contain everything necessary. Just download and run the executable. For more > download options, see the sections below. ./pharo-ui Pharo61.image & > > I am unable to "run the executable" without further explanation. I'm > guessing that it's missing the Pharo VM, which apparently isn't included in > the download. Why would it be? > > A newbie looking at this installation page and trying to get started with > Pharo under Linux would be totally confused and frustrated. Hell, *I'm > totally confused and frustrated!* As you see this can be fixed without losing more time on that. > > > > Stephane Ducasse-3 wrote >> Hi >> >> We have a full mooc with 90 videos, we have books. And we are super busy. >> You see we cannot do everything. >> >> >> Stef >> >> On Mon, Dec 4, 2017 at 5:15 AM, horrido < > >> horrido.hobbies@ > >> > wrote: >>> Speaking of which, one of my readers said he tried out Pharo recently and >>> found the documentation wanting. He was expecting a Getting Started guide >>> at >>> the pharo.org website and couldn't find one. So he had to blunder around >>> a >>> bit. >>> >>> I told him he could've looked at "Chapter 2: A quick tour of Pharo" in >>> the >>> *Pharo by Example 5* book, but he's right. There ought to be something >>> obvious at the pharo.org website that helps a newbie get Pharo up and >>> running, understand how to basically use the Pharo IDE, and write the >>> standard "Hello World" program. >>> >>> I checked out squeak.org and found the same documentation issue! Why is >>> this??? >>> >>> >>> Offray Vladimir Luna Cárdenas-2 wrote >>>> Documentation is going well. In fact the stuff that kept me away of >>>> Squeak, despite of its potential was the lack of documentation. "The >>>> artifact is the curriculum" was to powerful but too heavy. You need a >>>> way to understand how to deconstruct and navigate the artifact that is >>>> usually anchored with the culture you have (books and reading) instead >>>> of only launching inspectors os browsing the code. Grafoscopio is my >>>> attempt to fill that gap between the world of objects/simulations and >>>> the world of scripts/documents. >>>> >>>> Cheers, >>>> >>>> Offray >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> -- >>> Sent from: http://forum.world.st/Pharo-Smalltalk-Users-f1310670.html >>> > > > > > > -- > Sent from: http://forum.world.st/Pharo-Smalltalk-Users-f1310670.html >
