From: Offray Vladimir Luna C?rdenas <offray.luna@mutabit.com> That being said, I have always felt that hello world is kind of a strange introduction to programming:
Surely the traditional Smalltalk first step is 1. Open Workspace/Playground. 2. Type 3+4. 3. Cmd-P ? If I can remember that far back, my first exercise was 2+3) 1 <print it> 4+5) 1 class <print it> 6+7) 1 class class <print it> 8+9) 1 class browse <do it> 10) <quit do not save> Having read the three coloured books and Inside Smalltalk -- now freely available and thank you SO MUCH for that -- the language wasn't that strange, but the user interface was utterly unlike anything I'd ever used before, even my beloved Interlisp-D. These days, Pharo-the-IDE is enough different that those books don't help as much as they did when I met Squeak. (For that matter, I am still fairly helpless with VisualAge Smalltalk because of differences in the UI.) Come to think of it, lesson 1 ought to be "how to shut Pharo down". It's the first thing I look for in any programming environment these days.