Thank you for all your training/learning thoughts

> I think what I really need to do is to get over the initial 'hump' of
> building squeak applications. I need to go beyond the normal 'bank
> account' example so that I can see how to put together something more
> complex.  I will try the books.
>
> What about taking a training course in another dialect e.g Cincom
> Smalltalk.  How transferable would that be?
>
> Thanks
> AB
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>Subject: Re: [Newbies] Thank you for all your training/learning thoughts
>Date: Wed, 24 Jan 2007 11:56:45 +1300
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>On Wednesday 24 January 2007 07:36, [hidden email] wrote:
> > What about taking a training course in another dialect e.g Cincom
> > Smalltalk.  How transferable would that be?
>I found the documentation which came with Cincom Smalltalk to be invaluable
>in
>getting over the 'hump'. In particular the daily 'screencasts' by James
>Robertson. Like much information about software written by seasoned experts
>there are a number of places where he forgets that what comes naturally and
>without any conscious thought to him is, for a brand new learner, a vital
>fact. But that is a fact of life when trying to learn any complex software
>system.
>
>http://www.cincomsmalltalk.com/userblogs/cincom/blogView?content=smalltalk_daily
>
>I don't know if anything similar based around squeak even exists.