> From: Offray Vladimir Luna C?rdenas <
[hidden email]>
> 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.
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