I am not willing to create an account there but Phil, I must say I
share most things you wrote there.
Just some small things I would add.
1: One must understand that Smalltalk is a live empty OS that one
can modify with merely any rules or limitations.
2: One must be god if you can start implementing projects without
reading the MSDN library or any other programming language
documentation.
3: Oppose to VisualStudio you can actually add a close button for
browsers according to you needs. Pharo does not prevent you from
this.
4: Tutorial? This is a great introduction to get started. Try to
understand most of all concepts and syntax of a different language
in approx. 13 slides...
5: He learned how to execute code and does not know how to start an
application,.... well this is a flaw. Does the Tutorial ask for too
much genuity and should be extended by one sentence to clarify this?
6: Real tutorial, but maybe too complex for somebody who does
already want to play with repositories, socket communication and
debugging.... point him at
http://zn.stfx.eu/zn/build-and-deploy-1st-webapp/
7: Doesn't the Welcome page point at the Help Documentation? It does
explain how to create "projects" doesn't it?
8: GUI looks old and is slow? +1 to him,... I also have a hard time
to sell it, but at least I am aware how much there is currently
done...
9: If he really wants to get an idea on the size and complexity of
Smalltalk once could refer him to VASmalltalk and IBM's Programmers
reference,.... 2 1/2 years later he will have worked though it have
enough experience write his first proper lines of code and be a bad
ass Smalltalker 5 years afterwards....
I saw Cuis Smalltalk last weekend,.... I thing Cuis and a little
simpler might be the best introduction plattform to Smalltalk,...
just raw Smalltalk and switch by switch one can turn on features
like a repository, profiler, configurations, deployment,....
Just my 5cents
Sebastian
put some replies.
maybe someone can add links to Kilon videos there.
Phil
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