Come on, there is http://books.pharo.org/updated-pharo-by-example/
which is the same book, but for Pharo, and updated to 5.0 And http://books.pharo.org/booklet-WithStyle/ being written. Let's appreciate all the effort done by the authors to do the hard work of keeping all this up to date. > On 18 Dec 2019, at 18:30, Hilaire <hila...@drgeo.eu> wrote: > > Hi Steve, > > Did you give a look at the "Smalltalk by Example" and "Smalltalk with > style" ? There are good starters to get an overall idea of the basic > objects and how is written Smalltalk code. It could help to jump in > Pharo then. > > There are very easy reading, the advanced parts may not apply to Pharo > though, but you can then jump to specific Pharo books. > > http://stephane.ducasse.free.fr/FreeBooks.html > > Hilaire > > > > Le 18/12/2019 à 09:11, Steve Davies a écrit : >> I'm a career programmer but I'm nearly 60 and sadly I can't absorb >> information like I used to be able to, and I'm just finding Pharo so >> overwhelming - I feel like a maintenance programmer trying to find a >> way into a million lines of code when you don't understand the >> principles of organisation and the conventions of the developers. >> >> Is there no way to have some sort of "progressive revelation" of the >> insides of Pharo? Just documentation on most classes, examples of how >> to use the class, without the implementation being exposed initially? > > -- > Dr. Geo > http://drgeo.eu > > >
