On Thursday 23 Jul 2009 7:24:25 pm Max Norman wrote: > I'm a novice programmer, who, at the suggestion of several more > experienced developers, is attempting to get familiar with Smalltalk > before moving on to Ruby, to more thoroughly learn and understand the > concepts of object-oriented programming. First off, is this worth doing? Yes. The hardest part is grasping the concept behind object and messages. Smalltalk's inspiration is organisms not numerical integrators for guided missiles :-). See an earlier thread http://www.nabble.com/Smalltalk-Data-Structures-and-Algorithms- td24211375.html particularly the quote "each Smalltalk object is a recursion on the entire possibilities of a computer".
> 'Squeak by Example' appears to be for more experienced programmers, who > are approaching Squeak/Smalltalk from a linguistic perspective. I presume you wish to practice programming for the long term. Why not start working in Squeak right away? Smalltalk is a "small" language (only four reserved words!). v3.8 image has a good intro-level slides on Smalltalk. Etoys 4 has such a low barrier that even middle school students start programming in a couple of days time. Subbu _______________________________________________ Beginners mailing list Beginners@lists.squeakfoundation.org http://lists.squeakfoundation.org/mailman/listinfo/beginners
