you can also use the smalltalk tools. senders. implementers message tools we say that a guy is ok in smalltalk when he understand senders and implementors. Now you can also send this kind of message to the squeak and smalltalk community because I should be guy that wrote the larger number of smalltalk book so I do not know how I could do more. Stef On Mar 27, 2009, at 6:51 PM, Robert Peters wrote:
I agree with this sentiment. I have been trying to learn Smalltalk with the help of 'Squeak by Example', but while it is a good read, it is almost useless as a reference.
When I have a Python issue, I type (for example), "initialize multi- dimensional array Python" into Google and get 14,000 responses. Replace 'Python' with 'Smalltalk' and I get 2,000, most of which aren't about Smalltalk, and I still haven't found a code example.
There are a number of books on-line, but some don't even have tables of contents or indexes, and they're all in .pdf, which makes them extremely cumbersome to use as references.
I, of course, only speak for myself, but I am officially closing my current foray into Smalltalk. It's too hard to learn. There's not adequate reference material. There are very few code examples.
If, at some point in the future, Smalltalk becomes easier to learn, I will try again. Until then, I'm going back to Python.
I mentioned on the Pharo IRC channel that I was a Django developer, and would consider building a site to assist with getting the material inside these books onto the web, and I will continue to think about that. If there's any interest, please let me know.
Kind regards, Robert Peters
Having better comment than buildWith: aBuilder ^self subclassResponsibility
is needed if we want to continue to bash Java people. So what do we do? Stef
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