Getting Started in Smalltalk
Here's a question that came up in comp.lang.smalltalk - it comes up about Smalltalk fairly often, actually:
For me the problem is knowing where to get started, how to move around the environment (the IDE), finding/searching for items of interest (eg. methods, classes), how to start building a small self-contained application, etc.
Can anyone recommend how to get started, or suggest an online reference?
For Cincom Smalltalk, there are two things we've set up to make getting started easier:
- Online Tutorials
- "Smalltalk Daily" screencasts
The screencasts are flash movies that explain various aspects of the environment; you can view them in an ad-hoc' fashion or in order (which might be useful for complete beginners). Enjoy - and send feedback my way!
Comments
Getting Started
[chip] May 21, 2007 8:26:33.129
I think what would be real helpful are detailed sample applications that a user could load into their image and see how it is all done. Soup to nuts. Chad Fowler talked about the "CRUD" app that Rails generated. How about a complete app with add/edit/delete using Glorp as a persistence mechanism? A new user could use that as a base to creating a new app by just modifying the domain, the interface and the peristence information. That instead of opeing up VW and saying "where do I start?"