How to Squeak

The purpose of this site (over time) is to provide information to Smalltalk novices on how to get up to speed in Smalltalk. It was suggested by Ralph Johnson in response to my persistent questions on the Squeak mailing list about how things like change sets work. Currently, it is mostly a collection of prized mailing list notes and some small hacks that I'm working on.

I suggest visiting the Downloads and Pluggable WebServer pages as the most useful stuff here right now.

Latest Stuff (1/6/99)

Most of this has really moved into the Swikis. See the To see what Georgia Tech Squeakers are doing and To see what the Squeak community in general is doing.

Newly Updated Stuff (March 23, 1998)

• Updates to Squeak 1.31 contains some new PWS and Swiki stuff
• FileDictionary: Tiny Squeak Database is a super-simple database for Squeak.
• Downloads has been updated with Nu-UI.st which improves on the old Squeak-UI.st
• Pluggable WebServer, up to version 1.0+ and includes Server files for 1.23, 1.30, and 1.31 Squeak.
• Much of my Squeak activity is going to be going into my course CS2390 Modeling and Design in the Winter '98 quarter. You can find the course homepage at http://www.cc.gatech.edu/classes/cs2390_98_winter/ and the course Swiki at http://pbl.cc.gatech.edu:8080/cs2390.

Useful Squeak Sites

• The Squeak at UIUC Site is really the home of Squeak these days.
• I really like Ward Cunningham's Squeak Wiki site: http://c2.com:8080/
• Great Squeak Tutorial: http://www.cosc.canterbury.ac.nz/~wolfgang/cosc205/smalltalk1.html

Site Outline

Everything, even if incomplete or just an outline of what I want to say there.

Downloads

FileDictionary: Tiny Squeak Database

Getting Started with Morphic

Janak on Morphic UI

Maintaining a Squeak Image

notes

Do I have to make accessors for EVERYTHING?

How do I get started on Morphic?

How do you store your code in Squeak?

I've seen curly braces in some Squeak code. What are they for?

More on Change Sets and Maintenance

Using Squeak -- its UI

What's a ChangeSorter for?

Where can I find Squeak and more information on Squeak?

Where is HyperSqueak?

Where is the sources file? Why do all my methods have variables t1, t2, etc.?

pws

Acknowledgements

Active Swikis

Current State

Description of Examples

How PWS is Pluggable

Mailing List

Pluggable WebServer

Real Applications

Server Actions

Squeak 1.31 and Converting

Ted Kaehler's tips on converting from old Swikis and using Swiki in Squeak 1.31

Starting the PWS

Tips on Setting up PWS

Tips on Use

To-Do

Tour of PWS

Updates to 2.0Beta

Updates to Squeak 1.31

Report on OOPSLA97

Running a Squeak Web Server

Squeak BonMots

What and Why is Squeak?