Re: Newbie questions about Squeak Documentation and Morphic

Hi, Eric.

I would like to add my voice to yours.  I have considerable Smalltalk 
experience, but not Squeak, and hence not Morphic.  Someone else will have to 
answer your question, but I suspect that Squeak/Morphic is like so many other 
open source projects:  programming is fun but documentation is not, at least 
as a general rule among programmers.  The Morphic classes are there: 
* pick favorite morphic project and 
* bring up it's halo, 
* select menu->debug->browse morph class.
That might get you started exploring.

On Thursday 31 October 2002 12:32 pm, Eric Merritt wrote:
> Hello All,
>
>  To begin with, if this is not the correct list to
> post to for these kind of questions please direct me
> to the correct list. With that out of the way, on to
> my questions and comments.
>
>  I have recently (within the last few days) discovered
> SmallTalk and Squeak in general. Oh, I have heard
> about SmallTalk in the past and even Squeak but I
> never picked it up for a number of reasons. In any
> case, I have been looking for a good productive cross
> platform language that has excellent support of a GUI
> interface. These criteria made finally me stop and
> look at both SmallTalk and Squeak in particular. I am
> glad I did. After reading some of the docs and playing
> around with the environment I already like it allot.
> In fact the code browser reminds me a whole lot of
> VisualAge for Java, one of my favorite IDEs. Of
> course, Now I found out that why VisualAge for Java
> resembles Squeak and other SmallTalk environments, I
> assume lol.
>
>  Ok so now I am all hyped up ready to write some code
> and get a feel for the environment, particularly
> Morphic which is what drew me here in the first place.
> Alas this is where I fall flat on my face. There are a
> few very simple tutorials out there, but there doesn't
> seem to be any comprehensive in depth material. In
> fact, I can't even find any class descriptions. I've
> tried looking at the source, but at this point, thats
> not real helpful.
>
> Is there some information out there I am missing? How
> do you go about learning this thing from scratch.
> Maybe I have just been spoiled by the amount of
> documentation out there for Java and C++, but it still
> seams to me that there must be some method for
> learning this thing, otherwise there would be know one
> using it.
>
> So if you guys have suggestions I would love to hear
> them.
>
> Thanks,
> Eric
>
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