<div dir="auto">Hi Mark !</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">nice to have you with us, i am typing from phone so i will be telegraphic. </div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">. github, needed, i learnt it just for Cuis as well ;) it is worth. </div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">. books, be supercarefull, if they are not specifically targeted at Cuis don't copy code, nothing for graphics in particular. </div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">. cool we have one more who can see the typos, and bad English, many of us are not native ;) (e.g. me)</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">. as a developer, read well the Terse Guide, there is a lot of stuff there</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto"> bye</div><div dir="auto">Nicola</div><div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Sat, Jan 22, 2022 at 7:25 PM Mark Taber 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:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">Hilaire,<br>
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Thanks so much! Sounds like I should get comfortable with riding the git train, too!<br>
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Cheers,<br>
Mark<br>
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“To know that one doesn’t know is best.” — Lao Tzu<br>
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> On Jan 22, 2022, at 8:56 AM, Hilaire Fernandes via Cuis-dev <<a href="mailto:cuis-dev@lists.cuis.st" target="_blank">cuis-dev@lists.cuis.st</a>> wrote:<br>
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> Hi Mark,<br>
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>> Le 22/01/2022 à 17:26, Mark Taber via Cuis-dev a écrit :<br>
>> Finally (finally!) I’ve gotten around to downloading and starting to learn Cuis Smalltalk. I’m using The Cuis Book (though I have also downloaded the other suggested classic Smalltalk books for later reading).<br>
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> Nice to read news from you.<br>
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>> I’m a retired system architect / senior developer in the enterprise (a large state government agency here in the USA). I can’t complain, but got to marvel and look at things like Smalltalk from a distance. Now…I am learning it, and planning on using it for my computational sketches (the computer will create the “canonical forms” that I will imperfectly reproduce on canvas, etc., by hand).<br>
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> That's sound interesting! You want the software to compute some sort of graphics you will then draw or paint by hand?<br>
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> I am 100% sure that if you allocate a daily chunk of time to learn Cuis, like 1 hour, you will progress quickly. Whatever you progress or not during this one hour slot, it is a very effective way for training. Not to mention it will help to keep your brain healthy.<br>
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>> Thanks to all of you for the books, this mailing list, all the work on the code, the videos. It makes Cuis feel very manageable.<br>
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>> Question: I have found several (very) small errors in the Cuis book (English subject-verb agreements, spelling, etc.). So small, in fact, that it seems “nit-picky” to even point them out. How would a person report these? (I’m open to contributing, but I am*waaaay* too new to the project at this point.)<br>
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> This will be very valuable. You can report to me.<br>
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> The most effective way is to fork The Cuis Book repository and submit pull requests with your fixes. I will then review and accept. If you know GitHub workflow, it is by far the most efficient.<br>
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> If you don't know GitHub workflow yet, you can pick up the PDF version of the book, and write in a simple text file all your fixes (with the pages and fixes), then send me the text file.<br>
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> Best<br>
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> Hilaire<br>
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