The documentation of pharo currently is much better than documentation for open source projects of similar size. Do not expect full or large documentation with such small community or class comments.

"See and discover yourself" is the approach to coding at large because in most cases whether you have a popular or non popular language documentation will always be a problem because developers generally don't like to write documentation.

However the best documentation by large for pharo is this mailing list and the slack channel. For example when I was learning NBOpenGL i literally bombarded this mailing list with questions and all of them got answered in just a few hours. For 4 years now, non of my questions have been left unanswered and I am one of those people that have no hesitation at all asking stupid questions :D

The irony here is that even though developers don't like writing documentation they absolutely LOOOOOVEEEEE answering questions :D

so its also a nice trick to go in the forum of world.st , which basically takes the mailing list messages and present them as a forum and you can do search whatever you want.

http://forum.world.st/Pharo-Smalltalk-Users-f1310670.html

For Graphics , vector graphics, Roassal is probably the best choice if you want to visualize data and comes with nice documentation. Roassal uses Athens which is basically Cairo wrapped for Pharo which also has some documentation and some examples.


On Fri, Sep 23, 2016 at 7:22 PM julius <julius@wokabulary.com> wrote:
Probably this is a very beginners question but is there a documentation
online
or within the Pharo image for all the base-framework components like all
collections, Morphic, Numbers and so on?

I know Pharo uses a lot the 'see and discover yourself' approach but
sometimes,
especially for beginners it would be nice to have a documentation for most
classes
and also have programming guides. Coming from macOS and iOS development I
think about something like Swift or Objective-C has. For example you have
every
class there documented but also you have programming guides for how to draw
graphics. It would be really helpful to have somthing like that for example
for
Voyage (maybe it's there but I did not found it).

Thanks for helping me out!
Julius



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