On Wednesday 30 Mar 2011 12:30:56 pm Tim Retz wrote:
> My problem is that smalltalk is my first programing language,
> So I need to figure out how to break a problem down to something I can code
> out (I need to learn to "scratch-code" in a workspace).
Start with your own programming problem first
On Wed, Mar 30, 2011 at 9:59 AM, David Corking wrote:
> On Wed, Mar 30, 2011, Tim Retz wrote:
> > My problem is that smalltalk is my first programing language,
> > So I need to figure out how to break a problem down to something I can
> code
> > out
>
> (3) Etoys is a much simpler language than S
On Wed, Mar 30, 2011, Tim Retz wrote:
> My problem is that smalltalk is my first programing language,
> So I need to figure out how to break a problem down to something I can code
> out
Computer scientists are taught courses like "algorithms" and "data
structures". Others like me end up skipping t
On Wed, Mar 30, 2011 at 07:21:39AM -0500, David Mitchell wrote:
> This list is maintained by Stephane Ducasse:
> http://stephane.ducasse.free.fr/FreeBooks.html
>
> He also wrote an excellent book, *Squeak: Learn Programming with
> Robots*that assumes no development experience:
> http://news.squeak
This list is maintained by Stephane Ducasse:
http://stephane.ducasse.free.fr/FreeBooks.html
He also wrote an excellent book, *Squeak: Learn Programming with
Robots*that assumes no development experience:
http://news.squeak.org/2008/10/28/squeak-learn-programming-with-robots-now-free/
On Wed, Mar
The book "Joy of Smalltalk" by Ivan Tomek was written to teach
programming in Smalltalk. You can find it at
http://plato.acadiau.ca/courses/comp/tomek/jos.htm
It is for VisualWorks, so a lot of things will be different, but most
of it will be the same. You should give it a try and let us see how
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
On Wed, Mar 30, 2011 at 9:00 AM, 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 some other language.
>
> ...That's not to say I haven't read, and executed examples from, a few of
> them. I've followe
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 some other language.
...That's not to say I haven't read, and executed examples from, a few of
them. I've followed along with the laser game development guide by Stephan B
