Thanks for the response. The book states at the end that reading the blue book is a good way to continue, is this right or is it outdated and make for GUI Smalltalk implementation's. For a note, I can't get gst-browser to launch due to the bug I've seen mentioned already in the mailing list. On Jul 10, 2021 10:37 AM, Derek Zhou via Users mailing list for the GNU Smalltalk environment <help-smalltalk@gnu.org> wrote: > > On 2021-07-10 13:55:02Z, joseph turco wrote: > > Hello, > > > > im a new programmer and new to smalltalk. i decided on using GNU-Smalltalk > > to learn the language. i hope you don't mind asking this question, but is > > this version of smalltalk the best to use? i see alot of people talk about > > having the IDE making what smalltalk is, and using the command line/emacs > > is not the way to do it. > > Welcome. Like many questions in life, the answer is "it depends". I myself > use GNU smalltalk precisely because I don't want to behold to an IDE. > > > ill be following "computer programming with > > gnu-smalltalk" by canol gokel. is this the right way? many thanks in > > advance. > > > > The book is good; it aims at the audience with no prior programming > experience. You are on the right track. > > Derek >