<div dir="ltr">Joseph,<div><br></div><div>My .02 is to go with the fish tank idea. It's something you have so obviously care about. A big part of programming is sticking with and many people have a problem staying focused to see projects through. Having a goal you really care about helps dramatically with keeping your motivation up and actually finishing it.</div><div><br></div><div>You're probably thinking right now about maybe keeping a log and graphing it which would be a great starting point. However, you could do much more with it (just google 'arduino aquarium') if you were interested... all being monitored/controlled from Cuis. Doing software + hardware projects is even more work so if that interests you, think of it as a long term project and just start with the software side of it for now. (if you end up going down the hardware path, start with monitoring hardware as some of the automation stuff can be dangerous to the fish if you make a mistake. So wait until you develop a level of confidence in your skills before going there.)</div><div><br></div><div>Thanks,</div><div>Phil</div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Sun, Jul 18, 2021 at 7:14 PM Joseph Turco via Cuis-dev <<a href="mailto:cuis-dev@lists.cuis.st">cuis-dev@lists.cuis.st</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">One more thing,<br><br>For programs, the first thing I can think of is making a fake ATM machine, don't have anything else really in mind yet. I don't think my mind has fully expanded to appreciate the language to pick other projects. The other I can think of actually would be making a program to track my fish tank parameters (ammonia, nitrities, nitrates, PH, GH, KH and temp). That would be really cool as well. <br><br><br>Sent from ProtonMail mobile<br><br><br><br>-------- Original Message --------<br>On Jul 18, 2021, 6:55 PM, Nicola Mingotti via Cuis-dev < <a href="mailto:cuis-dev@lists.cuis.st" target="_blank">cuis-dev@lists.cuis.st</a>> wrote:<blockquote><br>
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Hi Joseph,<br>
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Define a little program you would like to write.<br>
<br>
E.g. The first program i really wrote because i wanted it was an
alarm playing a certain mp3 <br>
at increasing volume in the morning. Probably it was a Bash script.
I wrote some C code<br>
before that, but it was for univ. assignment, not the same thing, at
all. <br>
<br>
This is the best way to learn anything, keep a target in front of
you, a problem to be solved ;)<br>
<br>
To learn Smalltalk takes some time because it is a system, not just
a programming language.<br>
To me it took time to wrap my mind around it and still i am not that
advanced.<br>
TheCuisBook is a book about the Smalltalk SYSTEM called Cuis. It
takes in a LOT of stuff. <br>
Digest it slowly. Use other sources as well, ask questions. <br>
<br>
The first things you must understand are: variables, loops and tests
and the most basic kind<br>
of objects like Strings and Numbers, List, Date etc. Focus on that !
Explore the "TereseGuide". (TerseGuideWindow openTerseGuide . )<br>
Work in the Workspace and Transcript. Forget defining new Classes
for the moment, use<br>
what Cuis has already defined for you. <br>
<br>
Don't change dialect, if you start jumping from Cuis to Squeak to
Pharo to esleTalk you will get extremely confused.<br>
<br>
Don't give up, this is the most beautiful way you can use a
computer.<br>
<br>
Maybe in the next weeks I may have time to put online a video
tutorial about the language,<br>
which is actually the easiest part of Smalltalk. OOP is your friend,
you will see, it is there to<br>
make things simpler. <br>
<br>
bye ;) <br>
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<div>On 7/18/21 10:56 PM, Joseph Turco via
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No problem. As for a other mini update. I'm still for the most
part having to look at the solutions. Maybe I'm not very good with
smalltalk. Maybe its OOP I can't understand, but I really don't
feel like I'm learning much. I am in no way saying its an issue
with the book, it just might be at a level that is not basic
enough for me. I would like to hear what peoples thoughts are on
this. Maybe its OK that I'm looking at the answers? <br>
<br>
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Sent from ProtonMail mobile<br>
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On Jul 18, 2021, 4:31 PM, Hilaire Fernandes via Cuis-dev <
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<p><font size="+1">Thanks for the feedback. I will add details</font></p>
<p><font size="+1">Hilaire</font></p>
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You mentioned about me looking for anything in the book, and I
do have one thing to mention. Some of the exercises are kinda
difficult and I've had to goto the solution. Most of them made
sense after looking at the solution, but some of them I don't
understand. For example.<br>
<br>
Exercise 4.9<br>
<br>
($A to: $Z) collect [:c | (c asciiValue - 65 + 3 \\ 26 + 65)
asCharacter] .<br>
<br>
I have no clue how that math calculation works at all. <br>
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