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Following Americo, I set up Workspace and Transcript windows to check
out using class objects messages.
Plodding through doing its seems a bit tedious when one is kept aware
of where it is going "making casual games using blender".
I started to remember how newtonscript was based on smalltalk (the
system programmers studied smalltalk first as a language model and then
went on to define the newtonscript language). So, I am in good company
because I have already studied newtonscript and gotten used to the idea
of an inspector that lets you test code instantly before you put it
inside an application. I recalled the powerful intuitions that I got
about newtonscript's dynamic scoping with the words "object born into
an environment". This had contextual or experiential meaning to me at
the time, the sort of thing one captures, not in words, but in the
folklore of a subject material.
I am falling on keyboard shortcuts and method spelling checks so I
don't have to go back into the lesson to find out how to capitalise
letters in the methods. This stuff has to get wired in, as a
fundamental dance pattern must be, as kids learn a video game
experientially very fast. One must honor that sort of human activity
and, until you pass into trying out your own examples, over and over
through his examples, just "do it".
However, so far, while getting this facility in inspecting live what
happens when we program, we aren't getting how to use polymorphism to
construct whole languages and operating systems while making them
surveyable to individual user/programmers.
Long ago at a motorola conference, the intuition of this is held by
network programmers and sadly the formalisation of this had been a
different world. Since, as rapid oop development environments have come
out of the closet of industrial secrecy, the folklore and formal might
have "married" a bit and marriage is a bit more mature than simple
outsourcing to Brazil.
;-)
We are, by Americo so far, dosed with only examples of methods of
classes, eg. class string and orderedCollection.
1. I note, however, this is a lot less tedious than if I had never
studied any other object oriented language such as objective C Next
derivative or newtonscript.
2. I further note, a lot lot less tedious than if I had ever learned
scripting c shells .
3. Steve Jobs at D5 quoted Alan Kay saying that software motivates
hardware and you bootstrap into hardware with a "monitor" or "text
editor" to make programs.
If one, however, imagines that one does not have any solitude to,
without embarrassment, be tedious, one's life becomes a shallow
fascade. One might get traumatized into believing that one either must
either spend all time alone with one's own thoughts or steal everyone
else's thoughts and sell them.
In fact, there are always third alternatives ... .
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