Exactly! The JRMPC participants were more used to looking things up quickly and easily, rather than exploring. It's not easy to teach people how to explore a system for needed information, and more importantly, it's a time-consuming process. People are impatient. Smalltalk is not for impatient people, and that's the major problem. Ben Coman wrote
Pharo has some good documentation, but its more lesson-based than a library reference. Those of us familiar with Pharo know the tricks to use the system itself as that reference, but I'd imagine this is an unfamiliar workflow for newcomers.
I have seen before a class library reference generated from the image, but I couldn't put my hands on it right now. @all, is it still being generated?. This might provide newcomers something more familiar to work with.
cheers -ben
On Tue, 24 Mar 2020 at 03:00, Richard Kenneth Eng <
horrido.hobbies@
> wrote:
https://jrmpc.ca/2020/03/20/what-makes-learning-smalltalk-challenging/
FWIW, 95% of respondents pointed to the lack of reference documentation for the class library as the major obstacle to learning Smalltalk/Pharo.
Richard
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