Tutorial status

I've been on vacation and just yesterday, Thursday, began to process email 
messages and resuming work on my Squeak Tutorial.  Many folks have written to 
me, personally and here publicly, with both feedback, comments, corrections and 
questions.  I want to take a moment and update my status on the tutorial work.

First of all, thank you goes to everyone who has written me with positive 
feedback.  Thank you for your validation of my efforts.

A few people have asked for a Zip file of the tutorial contents.  At this time 
I have no plans to make this available.  As a regular component of my 
publication process I in-fact make a Zip file backup of the entire tutorial 
each time I update the web site.  However, the file is huge.  It's not 
something that can be emailed and I have not been uploading the file to the web 
site because of its size.

I would like to make PDFs and will investigate that in the future.

My current activities are focused around fixing reported and self-discovered 
typos, and I am doing a complete walk through from scratch as if I were an 
interested student.  In this way I am finding errors and omissions.  I am 
currently in section 3.  This takes as long, perhaps longer, than it took to 
actually write the tutorial.

After the coming update(s), I still have more to write.  So even though the 
tutorial in its present firm is highly useful, as many of you have told me, the 
work itself is not done.

Furthermore I have an ambition to publish the tutorial as a book some day and 
will begin work on that in earnest when this next set of activities has 
completed.

- Steve


       
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