On Thu, Apr 23, 2020 at 12:00 PM Roelof Wobben <r.wobben@home.nl> wrote:
Op 23-4-2020 om 20:52 schreef Richard Sargent:
On Thu, Apr 23, 2020 at 3:32 AM Roelof Wobben via Pharo-users < pharo-users@lists.pharo.org> wrote:
Hello,
I like Pharo a lot but I hit a wall very often. With complex problems I do not see how to solve things in small steps.
I would be happy to help with the Smalltalk and problem analysis aspects. Unfortunately, I don't use Pharo much, so I cannot help with it.
Is there somewhere who is willing to mentor me in how I can overcome that problem.
Roelof
Pity,
but if you could help me to learn how to divide a complex problem in smaller steps , then I think I can make it work in Pharo. My problem is more that then how to do it in Pharo.
Do you then use gemtalk a lot. Pity that I cannot make exercism challenges on that. And AdventOfCode do seem to difficult for a beginner.
Yes, I can help with those areas. I've been programming professionally and virtually exclusively in Smalltalk since 1991. I've been using GemStone/S since 2009 and now work for the manufacturer. I've been working with VA Smalltalk and its predecessors since 1994 and with VisualWorks since 2009. I hear you about using GemStone/S. For most of its life, the assumption was that you would use a client Smalltalk like VA Smalltalk or VisualWorks to do your development work. Although, recently we've been working on Jadeite ( https://github.com/GemTalk/Jadeite) to provide a development environment independent of GBS (which is what we used to connect VA Smalltalk and VisualWorks to GemStone/S).
Roelof