SmallTalk
New GNU Smalltalk E-Book Available!
If you have spent time struggling through the antiquated tutorial for GST, head over to Canol Gökel for a link to this e-book.
Personally, I find Squeak’s interface, with all the colors and doodads, terribly confusing. GNU Smalltalk is GUI-less, which will hopefully enable me to learn the basic syntax of the language, which will help [...]
What It’s All About
James Robertson has a screencast that shows an example of why we want to learn to use our available tools to automate repetitive tasks. Apparently, every few minutes, a spammer defaces a couple pages on a particular wiki. His solution is to script the automatic restoration at set intervals.
Question: In your environment, what repetitive tasks [...]
Got 2 Books, 1 More Soon
I have said that anyone wanting to follow our family’s adventures with Squeak should buy the book. I have obtained the book for myself and two nephews, with one more to come.
Changing employment is slowing things down considerably, even given conflicting schedules (track, soccer, baseball, church youth group, work, and "taxi duty").
Lost It, Starting Over
During preparation for an upgrade from Fedora Core 5 to Fedora Core 6, I lost all of my data on the older Dell laptop where I do much of my work. That includes Squeak, REBOL, REXX, and the progression through a couple of tutorials for each language. After two days of work, the laptop is [...]
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Squeak: Programming With Robots is a children's introduction to programming, similar to the 1980s LOGO phenomenon. Where LOGO has turtles, Squeak with the "Ready" image used in this book uses robots. I am using this book with my nephews. This article will not really get into it yet, but future articles will. If you don’t [...]
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