hey this is really neat!
I can offer you some corrections or perhaps suggestions for better
phrasing. just my native 2p if it helps.
As a general comment, i know it would be more work, if you could get
some emphasis e.g bold, italics it would really make the expressions
and names of classes or methods stand out.
---Welcome---
I suppose you have called me to learn Smalltalk.
-->
You must want me to help you learn Smalltalk!
---Doing vs printing---
You've just executed a Smalltalk instruction
-->
You've just executed a Smalltalk expression
---Doing vs printing 2---
It's a Do It which print the result
-->
It's a Do It which prints the result
---basic types numbers---
you know how to execute Smalltalk code
-->
you now know how to execute Smalltalk code
---basic types characters---
A Character can be instanciated
-->
A Character can be instantiated
--basic types string---
Use single quotes to create a String instance
-->
Use single quotes to create a String.
---basic types dynamic array---
Dynamic Array are created at execution time:
-->
Dynamic Arrays are created at execution time:
---unary messages---
Unary messages have the following form:
anObject aMethod name
-->
anObject aMethodName
--keyword messages--
The message is between:and: sent to Number object
-->
The message is between:and: sent to the Number 4
---message syntax: execution order---
Between similar messages, expressions are executed from left to right
-->
Between messages of similar precedence, expressions are executed from
left to right
---parentheses---
Use parentheses to change order
-->
Use parentheses to change order of evaluation
---mathematical precedence---
A message does not know mathematical precedence. Simplicity has a price :)
-->
(rephrase ?)
Traditional precedence rules from mathematics do not follow in
Smalltalk. The simplicity has a price ;)
It might surprise you that precedence rules you know from mathematics
do not apply here. This has a price as you can see...
---conditionals---
Conditionals are just message sent to Boolean objects
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Conditionals are just messages sent to Boolean objects
---loops---
Loops are messages send to collections, high-level iterators
-->
Loops are messages sent to collections, high-level iterators
---iterators---
Here we want to print all the numbers of the Transcript (a console)
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Here we want to print all the numbers on the Transcript (a console)
---() vs []---
-->
I know what you are trying to articulate here, but this page doesn't
really work since your 'annotation' is not syntactic and therefore
your learning style breaks.
pehaps have a think about this slide
cheers
Mike
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