Pharo 1.2.1

> Hello!
>
> I just downloaded Pharo 1.2.1 on my Mac OS X.5, and am also reading a printed copy of "Pharo By Example Version 2010-02-01" in order to learn Smalltalk.
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> In the Quick Tour chapter, you show the Preference Browser, but I am unable to bring this up using the System ... menu option.  Does it need to be installed separately?
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> Also in the Quick Tour chapter, you give an example BouncingAtomsMorph new openInWorld, which fails with the message "unknown variable BouncingAtomsMorph ...". Does this also need installation?
>
> Please forgive my beginner questions.
>
> Thanks!!
>
> David Perkins
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>

> Hello,
>
> The Book (sadly) describes a quite old version of Pharo (1.0 with a  
> special Code Browser).
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> In the meantime, we changed (improved, simplified) *a lot* of  
> things...
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> The problem is that it's futile to try to keep the book up to date.  
> We will make a new one for 2.0 :-)
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> So the best is to use the version linked from http://pharobyexample.org/
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> https://gforge.inria.fr/frs/download.php/27023/PBE-1.0.zip
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> when doing exercises from the book.
>
> Marcus
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> On Aug 3, 2011, at 5:11 PM, David Perkins wrote:
>
>> Hello!
>>
>> I just downloaded Pharo 1.2.1 on my Mac OS X.5, and am also reading  
>> a printed copy of "Pharo By Example Version 2010-02-01" in order to  
>> learn Smalltalk.
>>
>> In the Quick Tour chapter, you show the Preference Browser, but I  
>> am unable to bring this up using the System ... menu option.  Does  
>> it need to be installed separately?
>>
>> Also in the Quick Tour chapter, you give an example  
>> BouncingAtomsMorph new openInWorld, which fails with the message  
>> "unknown variable BouncingAtomsMorph ...". Does this also need  
>> installation?
>>
>> Please forgive my beginner questions.
>>
>> Thanks!!
>>
>> David Perkins
>> [hidden email]
>>
>>
>>
>
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> Marcus Denker -- http://marcusdenker.de
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