Re: [Pharo-users] get them while they are young

2015-02-11 Thread kilon alios
"I've found most of the changes we've made to be low level enough that PBE is still a great reference." Are we using the same Pharo ? Because my Pharo has massively improved since version 1.4 and has major changes they are definitely not low level . Also PBE lacks fundamental material that I added

Re: [Pharo-users] get them while they are young

2015-02-11 Thread Sean P. DeNigris
kilon.alios wrote > I would not recommend Pharo to beginner coders, but with Updated Pharo By > Example near completion I may change my mind ;) I've found most of the changes we've made to be low level enough that PBE is still a great reference. And when Deep Into Pharo covered FileSystem, Metacel

Re: [Pharo-users] get them while they are young

2015-02-11 Thread Martin Bähr
Excerpts from kilon alios's message of 2015-02-11 09:19:27 +0100: > Well done Martin, personally I would not recommend Pharo to beginner > coders, but with Updated Pharo By Example near completion I may change my > mind ;) well, they are not beginner coders, at least i hope not. they should have

Re: [Pharo-users] get them while they are young

2015-02-11 Thread kilon alios
Well done Martin, personally I would not recommend Pharo to beginner coders, but with Updated Pharo By Example near completion I may change my mind ;) On Wed, Feb 11, 2015 at 9:58 AM, Martin Bähr < mba...@email.archlab.tuwien.ac.at> wrote: > here is the reaction of a student preparing for a GSoC

Re: [Pharo-users] get them while they are young

2015-02-11 Thread Sven Van Caekenberghe
Nice! > On 11 Feb 2015, at 08:58, Martin Bähr > wrote: > > here is the reaction of a student preparing for a GSoC project for which the > student needs to learn smalltalk: > > "I have installed Pharo v4.0 and started the book Pharo By Example as > suggested by you I just wanted to say

[Pharo-users] get them while they are young

2015-02-10 Thread Martin Bähr
here is the reaction of a student preparing for a GSoC project for which the student needs to learn smalltalk: "I have installed Pharo v4.0 and started the book Pharo By Example as suggested by you I just wanted to say that I am in the initial stages and loving it already :)" greetin