I used legos to make my own creations , I was never interested in pre built solutions. I have not see the lego master builder series no , I have left lego as childhood memory actually I stopped playing with legos when I was introduced into coding at age 9 and coding has been my lego ever since.
Documentation for Morphic exist in squeak wiki (there is plenty of it there) and in self documentation, its only Pharo that has Morphic undocumented. Well not entirely there is a chapter about it in PBE but I think thats ported from Squeak By Example. There also a lot of video tutorial on youtube for Morphic if I remember correctly. Frankly I dont completely understand what the target audience of Spec really is On Fri, Dec 19, 2014 at 11:43 PM, Daniel Lyons <fus...@storytotell.org> wrote: > > On Dec 19, 2014, at 9:24 AM, kilon alios <kilon.al...@gmail.com> wrote: > > That also may have to do with how I work which is that I was raised with > legos so I love to assemble things together instead of abstracting them > away which I think is what Spec tries to do. So Morphic definitely fits my > way of thinking better. > > > My brother and I both played with Legos a lot as kids. We'd each get a big > set. I would follow the instructions and build the model on the box. Then > I'd play with it, and eventually get bored with it and it would go on the > shelf. My brother would get halfway through following the instructions and > get bored, start making his own stuff. Eventually the pieces would wind up > in the big bin under his bed, along with whatever bits and pieces he hadn't > taken apart yet. I always thought his stuff was terrible, didn't look as > cool as what was on the box. He always thought I was boring because I'd > just build the one or two things it would tell you how to make. > > Today, I am a professional Java web developer, with roots in Python, > Haskell and Prolog. My brother, on the other hand, is a writer, potter, > musician, and professional industrial hygienist but does not program at all. > > When you compare Smalltalk programmers to other developers, you get a lot > of people who taught themselves by messing around in the image > (autodidacts) and you have a lot of people who only know Smalltalk and > don't really use other languages. The autodidacts I think, tend to love > Morphic. But I'm not sure how many of them learned it in Pharo versus > Squeak. And I think most of you probably loved Legos and were a lot more > like my brother, building your own things to suit yourselves from your own > imagination. Part of the genius of Pharo, in my opinion, is that it is a > lot more welcoming to people like me. The downside, of course, is that you > have to deal with a lot more people like me. :) > > Have you seen the Lego Master Builder series? They realized there were a > lot of kids out there who would benefit from more documentation. Even > unimaginative parents like myself can benefit from them. I got Lego MBA #1 > and read the manual closely. It's obviously intended for a 10–12-year-old > but I benefited from it. > > Spec's documentation is a lot like the Lego MBA. You're not the target > audience, I am. I wish everything in the image were documented like that. I > think that was sort of the intention behind Pharo by Example, which I read > and got a lot out of. Spec's documentation being out there and > Polymorph/Morphic not having anything like it definitely sends a message > about Polymorph and Morphic though, which leads to questions like mine. > > — > Daniel Lyons > > > >
