Re: [Newbies] Is There A Tutorial for People Who Have Never Programmed?

2013-12-28 Thread Amir Ansari
Check out this thread: http://lists.squeakfoundation.org/pipermail/beginners/2010-October/007313.html Amir On Fri, 27 Dec 2013 00:44:07 -0500 william murphy wrote: > Hello, > > If I have never programmed before but want to learn to program with Squeak, > which tutorial should I read? > > Th

Re: [Newbies] Re: Beginners Digest, Vol 92, Issue 9

2013-12-28 Thread Amir Ansari
Here are a couple of links: http://pharo.gemtalksystems.com/book/LanguageAndLibraries/announcements/ http://blog.3plus4.org/2007/04/06/sections-wrap-up/ I have a nice small code example somewhere... (looking for it!) Amir On Fri, 27 Dec 2013 21:56:39 -0800 David Holiday wrote: > Hi Casey and

Re: [Newbies] Confused about how to get everything set up

2011-11-06 Thread Amir Ansari
There's a good overview of database options in the Seaside book: http://book.seaside.st/book/advanced/persistency And the Pharo book also has chapters (in Section 6) describing each of these packages: http://book.pharo-project.org/book/table-of-contents/ Amir On Sun, 6 Nov 2011 23:53:53 -0500

Re: [Newbies] Re: I've never written a line of code, but want to be a programmer!

2011-04-05 Thread Amir Ansari
I've been looking for this issue of Byte for a long time - are there any scans online? It's certainly a seminal issue! Amir On Tue, 5 Apr 2011 10:11:34 -0500 Tim Johnson wrote: > Also one of the Kent Beck books like Smalltalk: Best Practice Patterns but I > can't recall if that was the one.

Re: [Newbies] I've never written a line of code, but want to be a programmer!

2011-03-30 Thread Amir Ansari
Check out this thread: http://lists.squeakfoundation.org/pipermail/beginners/2010-October/007313.html Amir On Wed, 30 Mar 2011 00:00:56 -0700 (PDT) Tim Retz wrote: > I seem to be having a hard time finding any sort of smalltalk tutorial that > doesn't assume I'm already a master programmer in

Re: [Newbies] Two Questions Search and ORM

2010-12-12 Thread Amir Ansari
Pharo is a fork of Squeak, so it's really just an implementation of Smalltalk. Conversely, Seaside is a web application framework (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Web_application_framework) built on Pharo/Squeak. Then there are the two major 'object databases': GemStone and Magma, plus several oth

Re: [Newbies] Squeak / Smalltalk classes

2010-10-12 Thread Amir Ansari
day 12 Oct 2010 11:54:31 am Amir Ansari wrote: > > I started with Squeak when I was using the book - most of the examples are > > universally applicable, until you get to the chapters on > > graphics/windows. But by then you're comfortable enough with the language >

Re: [Newbies] Squeak / Smalltalk classes

2010-10-11 Thread Amir Ansari
I started with Squeak when I was using the book - most of the examples are universally applicable, until you get to the chapters on graphics/windows. But by then you're comfortable enough with the language to be able to just read through those and understand what's going on. I should've mentio

Re: [Newbies] Squeak / Smalltalk classes

2010-10-11 Thread Amir Ansari
I learned Smalltalk from some of the books listed on Stef Ducasse's web page: http://stephane.ducasse.free.fr/FreeBooks.html I found the following particularly useful: Smalltalk by Example, by Alex Sharp Smalltalk With Style, by Edward Klimas, Suzanne Skublics and David A Thomas And a great bo

Re: [Newbies] put seaside application online

2010-03-23 Thread Amir Ansari
Also see the chapter on deployment, in the Seaside book/documentation: http://book.seaside.st/book/advanced/deployment ...and the series of posts on this topic at http://miguel.leugim.com.mx/ and http://onsmalltalk.com/scaling-seaside-more-advanced-load-balancing-and-publishing Amir On Tue,

Re: [Newbies] Can a block be a string?

2010-02-19 Thread Amir Ansari
This is a question better suited to the Seaside mailing list...! On Thu, 18 Feb 2010 17:33:21 -0500 Andy Burnett wrote: > I am playing around with Seaside 3 and noticed that, for example: > > html paragraph: 'text', and > html paragraph: [html text: 'hello']. > > Are both valid. > > When I l

Re: [Newbies] Referencing a variable?

2009-12-03 Thread Amir Ansari
Yes! That did it! First time I've used 'perform:'; I'd never have considered it. Thank you so much! Amir On 3 Dec 2009, at 12:05, Bert Freudenberg wrote: On 03.12.2009, at 12:59, Amir Ansari wrote: But I'd like to reuse the code as much as possible, so I'

[Newbies] Referencing a variable?

2009-12-03 Thread Amir Ansari
Dear list I've been looking through books, blogs and lists for a solution to this problem, but can't find anything! Which means that I'm not thinking about it in the right way... I'd be very grateful if someone could enlighten me! I have myLibrary (an OrderedCollection) of Books (class wi