by the way I forgot to add that I am active at #pharo irc channel at freenode if you want to chat about pharo and ask questions and also you can ask your questions at stackoverflow adding the tag pharo , the pharo community is so active in stackoverflow that I have never seen an unanswered question. here is the tag http://stackoverflow.com/questions/tagged/pharo On Fri, Sep 5, 2014 at 8:25 PM, Mayuresh Kathe <mayuresh@kathe.in> wrote:
Cool, thanks for the information. Also, your "riding a bike" analogy is quite good. :) Let's see how it goes for me.
Best,
~Mayuresh
On 2014-09-05 22:50, kilon alios wrote:
I have posted a series of video tutorial for Pharo and in some of them I explain the basics of OO with practical examples
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLqbtQ7OkSta0ULYAd7Qdxof851ybh-_m_ [4]
if you throw also PBE I think you pretty much covered.
OO is not really a difficult concept, an object is just a collection of variables and methods and then it builds complexity from there. But if you already so familiar with Squeak that should come as riding a bike, you cant forget these things. So I am sure you will remember it quickly when you try your your own experiments.
By the way welcome to Pharo and keep us posted with your progress .
Peronally I love Squeak is hands down the most elegant GUI system I have used, but I use Pharo because its more actively developed and better in the things that interest me.
On Fri, Sep 5, 2014 at 8:09 PM, S Krish <krishnamachari.sudhakar@gmail.com> wrote:
Welcome to the Smalltalk world..
You would have already seen:
http://pharo.org/documentation [1] in particular: http://pharobyexample.org/ [2]
In Pharo Start with the Pharo Tutorials through ( Left Click on the World, Help >> Pharo Tutorials )
Watch the screencasts.. in the documentation page..
Probably relevant will be Web application development with Seaside framework in Pharo Smalltalk:
http://book.seaside.st/book [3]
Rest will fall into place once you sink yourself in, and ask questions relevant to where you are wanting to head to..
On Fri, Sep 5, 2014 at 10:29 PM, Mayuresh Kathe <mayuresh@kathe.in> wrote:
A hello to Pharo-Users list members.
I am Mayuresh Kathe from Mumbai, India.
I used to work with Squeak a while (14 years) back, but ever since I had to move over to non-OOP environments, and never did get to work with Smalltalk or alike systems ever since.
To add to that, I haven't been programming for over 7 years due to being pushed into the management track. I have quit the management world, and along with it a regular job.
Am now a consultant, mostly to Web startups which leaves me with a lot of spare time to tinker around with what I would really like to.
After a lot of searching and experimenting, I finally landed in Pharo land, and things look good. :)
Given the fact that I haven't written a single fully functional program in 7 years, I feel like I've lost the ability to code, sort-a rusty.
Would the list members be kind enough to suggest a book I could work through to warm myself up to OOP? I stumbled upon "The Object Oriented Thought Process" by Matt Weisfeld, looks good, but if there's anything better suited to Pharo, would be nice to know.
Thanks,
~Mayuresh
Links: ------ [1] http://pharo.org/documentation [2] http://pharobyexample.org/ [3] http://book.seaside.st/book [4] https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLqbtQ7OkSta0ULYAd7Qdxof851ybh -_m_