Squeak tutorial status
I've been on vacation and just last
Thursday began to process email messages and resuming work on my Squeak
Tutorial. Many folks have written to me with feedback, comments,
corrections and questions. I want to take a moment and update my status on the
tutorial work.First of
all, thank you goes to everyone who has written to me with feedback. Thank you
for your validation of my
efforts.A few people
have asked for a Zip file of the tutorial contents. At this time I have no
plans to make this available. As a regular component of my publication process
I in-fact make a Zip file backup of the entire tutorial each time I update the
web site. However, the file is huge. It's not something that can be emailed
and I have not been uploading the file to the web site because of its
size.I would like to
make PDFs and will investigate that in the
future.My current
activities are focused around fixing reported and self-discovered typos. I am
doing a complete walk through from scratch as if I were an interested reader,
finding errors and omissions. I just completed section 3. This takes as long,
perhaps longer, than it took to actually write the
tutorial.After the
coming update(s), I still have more to write. So even though the tutorial in
its present form is highly useful, as many of you have told me, the work itself
is not done. Furthermore I have an ambition to publish the tutorial as a book
some day and will begin work on that in earnest when this next set of activities
has completed.
Posted: Tuesday - August 21, 2007 at 06:19 AM
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