Hi all! I have pushed a version to Monticello that has a bit of a GUI with nicer navigation, see the screenshot. I did not find out how to place the buttons better, and I don't know how to tell the tree morph to select another entry when I navigate through the lessons using the buttons or the workspace contents. Please tell me what you think about this. Since I know how little Smalltalk I really know, I certainly managed to destroy something, so please have a look and tell me what to do better. Here are a few ideas I've had, which I as a relative beginner would find really neat in an interactive tutorial application. As time allows, I would try to implement at least some of the points below: - Clickable items in the text window. So that a tutorial writer could for example write something like this: <code>SystemWindow new openInWorld</code> , and the code together with a button saying 'doit' would appear. So in principle a markup language for interactive tutorials which adds a bit of interesting short cut functionality and eye candy to the tutorial. - Tabbed browsing for having several tutorials opened at the same time - A button saying 'save lesson', that overwrites the appropriate method with the current state of the workspace; users can annotate the tutorial with their own notes or experiments; also the ability to add additional lessons - A button to push the current tutorial with all the additional annotations to a Monticello repository, from which future versions for everyone can be generated. Wiki for interactive tutorials! - Some additional functionality to generate a whole new tutorial from within the tutorial browser - (Semi-)Automatic update of tutorials - And, of course, many, many tutorials. Wouldn't it be great to have a tutorial for all the important and interesting aspects of a system, and even for every additional package you download? With the system Laurent designed, writing a tutorial is only so very slightly harder than writing example classes and methods, but so much more expressive and approacheable for someone new. Cheers, Danny Am Mittwoch, 27. Januar 2010 19:00:25 schrieb laurent laffont:
2010/1/27 Mariano Martinez Peck <marianopeck@gmail.com>
I forgot to ask....
Does the DEVImageWorkspaces openGettingStartedWorkspace still make sense having ProfStef ?
Can you take a look and "merge" it to ProfStef if there is something cool not included by Stef ? :)
I would like to have only one reference form the Pharo welcome workspace.
Thanks
Mariano
I agree for merging
I will put these snippets from getting started in ProfStef: 42 explore Date today explore 'abc' asUppercase. 'Hello World' reverse.
There's cool comments too.
I put global Read & Write on ProfStef so everybody can destroy it :)
Laurent
