When I made the presentation in the Greek Hackespace in Athens, I tried to illustrate how Smalltalk is a live organism. Took me 10 minutes to do that. The rest, 20 minutes, was spent with me debugging the GUI of ChronosManager, I inserted a bug and show how I fixed it without the GUI stoping and of course demonstrated the use of halos and the inspector.
On Sun, Oct 30, 2016 at 8:52 PM Richard Sargent <rsarg...@5x5.on.ca> wrote: > For the idea of transferring the code to another image, look at Dale's > work with "server blocks" between Pharo and GemStone/S. > > There is also his work which builds on this called Tugrik. > > > ------------------------------ > From: Christian Haider <christian.hai...@smalltalked-visuals.com> > Sent: 2016-10-30 00:39 > To: v...@lists.cs.illinois.edu; pharo-users@lists.pharo.org > Subject: [vwnc] small examples to show the tools > > Hi all, > > > > in two weeks, I am going to give a little talk about Smalltalk: > http://metameute.de/nook2016/ > <https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=http-3A__metameute.de_nook2016_&d=DQMFAw&c=8hUWFZcy2Z-Za5rBPlktOQ&r=ft-1QIM8cvtSHfdpPsQH-8KWGw6YwOgYlZIk9TUZRnI&m=ATNH3e-u6y6KCrcoyYx4sKBiikVF5mDHEi0RAMEeiNA&s=b8Ppz_zDqqrl44tjdZ3i23m9tPRHClnaFFwfYtdDtmw&e=> > . > > It is 45 min with students who probably never heard of Smalltalk. > > I want to concentrate on the liveliness of the environment with the tools: > Workspace, Inspector, Browser and Debugger. > > > > For this, I need a simple but nice example. > > > > I will use VisualWorks 8.2 and Mirko, a new Smalltalk lover, will use > Pharo 5. > > We want to have the computers connected, maybe also a Pi, to show the > platform independence of the image concept. > > > > The first idea was a chat client. A client and a server in one image. Then > in two images on one machine, on two machines (also the Pi), maybe in two > dialects (VW, Pharo). > > Possible to transfer code (blocks) across images (that should blow their > minds J). > > This is cool, but I am not sure if this is not too much and distracting > with other technologies. > > > > Another is to read a csv file or web service and parse it into objects. > With the right kind of cool data it is fun to mold these objects for the > tools. > > This not so sexy, but easy to do from scratch. Unfortunately, the > different computers would not play a role. > > > > As you see, I am a bit lost and wanted to ask you guys for ideas. > > > > Happy hacking, > > Christian > > > > P.S. Here in Lübeck, a town in northern Germany, the attitude towards > Smalltalk is generally positive, interested and curious. Maybe it is time > for a Smalltalk renaissance? >
