[Cuis-dev] Hello, new Cuis smalltalk user here!

[Joseph Turco]

Thanks for getting back to me.

I understand how yo highlight messages and such to figure out how they work. Its the math I didn't understand. I'm also having a hard time grasping how some things work like how some statements are written. Another example I had a problem was the question asking to make a method for the Star mass. I didn't get the influence of adding a class declaration at the top.

Maybe I just don't get OOP. I don't know, as I said I'm very new to programming and I'll also admit I have very basic math skills. Sorry if I'm bothering you at all...

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On Jul 16, 2021, 10:39 PM, Phil B via Cuis-dev wrote:

> If you highlight the message you don't understand, right click and then select 'implementors of it' you'll see a list of every implementation of the method in the image (including a couple that have good comments explaining what it does.) This will work for any message in that expression (to:, collect: (which was missing the colon), asciiValue, -, +, \\, asCharacter) You can also pull apart the expression and see what the different parts of it do such as ($A to: $Z), $A asciiValue etc. by copy/pasting them into a Workspace and printIt (either via the context menu or keyboard shortcut)
>
> On Fri, Jul 16, 2021 at 9:07 PM Joseph Turco via Cuis-dev <cuis-dev at lists.cuis.st> wrote:
>
>> Hello Hilaire.
>>
>> You mentioned about me looking for anything in the book, and I do have one thing to mention. Some of the exercises are kinda difficult and I've had to goto the solution. Most of them made sense after looking at the solution, but some of them I don't understand. For example.
>>
>> Exercise 4.9
>>
>> ($A to: $Z) collect [:c | (c asciiValue - 65 + 3 \\ 26 + 65) asCharacter] .
>>
>> I have no clue how that math calculation works at all.
>>
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>> -------- Original Message --------
>> On Jul 15, 2021, 11:40 AM, Hilaire Fernandes via Cuis-dev < cuis-dev at lists.cuis.st> wrote:
>>
>>> Hi Joseph,
>>>
>>> As your eyes are new on the book. It will be very useful to let us know about any issue or misunderstanding you encounter while struding the book.
>>>
>>> Happy reading
>>>
>>> Hilaire
>>>
>>> Le 15/07/2021 à 16:01, Joseph Turco via Cuis-dev a écrit :
>>>
>>>> Oh wow thanks! I downloaded the book and it seems like its a lot better suited. I'll follow that instead.
>>>
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