The latest PDF download is dated 2009-10-28. I would be very happy to purchase a book that was updated. Either through and autobuild or one of the writers could once a month publish a manual build. I spent in total a day trying top get a Laytex environ working on my Mac. I couldn't get the book to build and it left me tons of stuff installed without a clear way to remove. I do understand you are trying to balance having the book open and still make some cash. Maybe you should jside more with making some cash. The barrier to building the boook on your own is high. Just go ahead and strike a deal with one of the book vendors that will manage this for you. Pragmatic Programmers has a great beta books system.
Having more recent copies in more hands my push the book dev faster too. thanks, Jon On Thu, Feb 24, 2011 at 4:40 AM, Norbert Hartl <[email protected]> wrote: > > On 23.02.2011, at 15:22, Rob Vens wrote: > >> I am attempting to do the Pharo by Example book, but a package browser >> (which is used in the examples) is not in the 1.1.1 or 1.2 image. >> Should I still use categories? If I create a package in Monticello browser I >> am not able to add classes or anything (not as far as I could see). >> Just starting out using Pharo, so apologies if these questions are already >> answered elsewhere. > > Like Miguel said you should use the image from the website. As you could see > on the website a second edition of the book is in the make. I would advize > you to start with the current book. It gets you going in using smalltalk and > pharo. After that the second edition will be available. Quite some things > will have changed then but nothing fundamental regarding smalltalk. It could > be nice for you to follow the evolution if you start from the first image and > you get the feel how it gets better. You will be one of the guys that have a > fresh look on all of this. That is one thing we all are missing because we > are working quite some time with it and we are blind to certain things. So > don't hesitat to ask questions or the complain about things you think are > stupid :) > > Norbert >
