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• How to help us document Squeak.
• Thoughts on documentation
• Give the big picture and create a cook book (Documentation)
• Documentation within the Image

Introduction

• About Squeak

  • The History of Squeak
    • The Early History of Smalltalk by Alan C. Kay
    • Alan Kay's Etech 2003 Presentation
    • Travels with Smalltalk by Dave Thomas traces the larger history of Smalltalk up to the 90s
    • Quotes and anecdotes
    • Squeak's Place in the Universe
    • Design Principles Behind Smalltalk
  • Features
  • Supported platforms
  • License (MIT and Apache)

• Squeak and Smalltalk Basics

  • Smalltalk: A White Paper Overview by Harry Porter
  • Smalltalk overview
  • ANSI Smalltalk: the standard.
  • Squeak's programming language: Smalltalk and Squeak's dialect of it.
  • The Squeak and Smalltalk Glossary

Getting started

• Squeak FAQ: Frequently Asked Questions about Squeak
• Reporting Bugs and Fixes
• Squeak Mailing Lists

• Obtaining & Installing Squeak

  • See the Downloads page on squeak.org http://squeak.org/downloads/

• Learning Squeak

  • Introductions to Squeak
  • Self Study course for learning Squeak.
  • The Newbie page
  • Squeak Cookbook – HowTo
  • Squeak for Non-Native Speakers (pdf), by Noel Rappin of EchoBridge.
  • Squeak Tutorials

Using Squeak

• Interacting with Squeak

  • From the command-line
  • Squeak User Interface: working with Squeak's interface
  • Morphic: Squeak's newer graphics framework
  • MVC: The older graphics framework
    • Forms, Views, and Windows
    • The FormEditor
  • Fonts in Squeak

• Configuring and Tuning

  • User Preferences

• Installing Applications

  • SqueakMap: Add Packages to your Image
  • Publishing Packages with SqueakMap: How to work with SqueakMap and the Package
  • Monticello concurrent versioning system for Squeak code.

• Printing

  • Postscript support

• Storage

  • Databases and Persistence
  • Files and Directories

• Localization

  • Squeak Localization
  • Multilingual Support

• Multimedia

  • Sound and music
  • Video
  • Squeak-specific media
  • 3D
  • Presentation authoring
  • Presentaciones en Squeak, by Germán Arduino. This article is in Spanish, translators are welcomed!
  • Game programming

• Networking

  • Internet integration
  • Mail
    • Celeste
  • Internet Relay Chat (IRC)
    • Squeak on IRC
  • Web Browsers
    • Scamper
  • World Wide Web
    • Swiki
    • Comanche
    • SmallWiki (now renamed to Pier)
    • Seaside

• Miscellaneous

  • Squeak Threading Model
  • FFI

Programming with Squeak

• Introduction

  • Basic Squeak Development Tools – Browsers, Workspaces, Inspectors, etc.
  • Hello World programs – Ways of how to make a simple 'Hello World' Application
  • Dependencies
  • Monticello concurrent versioning system for Squeak code.

• Programming with the Squeak User Interface

  • BitBlt
  • see also Using Squeak
  • Exception Handling

• Unit Testing

  • Test Driven Development
  • SUnit S-Unit Testing Framework
  • Simple Smalltalk Testing: With Patterns
  • SUnit Explained
  • Test First Development
  • ExampleBrowser
  • Test Driven Development: By Example (Book)

• Storage

  • Databases and Persistence

• Networking

Deployment and Publishing with Squeak

• MaSarPackage
• Metacello
• Monticello

Inside Squeak

• System Documentation
• The Squeak Image

• The Virtual Machine

  • Virtual Machine (Overview)
  • VM Command Line Options
  • The Interpreter
  • Simulating the Interpreter: running the Squeak VM from within Squeak.
  • The Object Memory (the heap)
  • The Squeak Garbage Collector
  • Porting Squeak

Bugs and Fixes

• Reporting Bugs and Fixes
• Known Bugs
• ClassDescription

Appendices

• Bibliography

  • Smalltalk & Squeak books – Books about Smalltalk in general
  • Videos and Presentations

• Resources on the Internet

  • http://www.squeak.org/ – The official Squeak Homepage
  • http://www.smalltalk.org/ – The official Smalltalk Homepage
  • http://www.whysmalltalk.com/ – huge collection of Tutorials, HowTos and much more about Smalltalk

• Also see:

  • the class comments inside your Squeak image,
  • the available projects on various Super Swikis, and
  • the package descriptions in SqueakMap
  • The Category Index of all existing Squeak documentation

Miscellaneous - orphaned

• Older Front Page Links

  • Bibliography Online papers on Squeak, Smalltalk, and object-oriented programming - very extensive!
  • Modules - documentation about the modules/packages/repository system that was added to 3.3. (now obsolete!)
  • Squeak on Handhelds: running Squeak on machines like the iPaq.
  • Uncategorized Essays: miscellanous documentation that doesn't fit elsewhere.
  • Essays Wanted – essays that it would be wonderful to have around, but which aren't.
  • Cash for Documentation – help support the Squeak community by bidding for needed documentation

• Cleanup - to be moved?

  • Cleanup/Enhancement Projects
  • Documentation
  • Morphic Cleanup Project (MCP)
  • EventRecorderMorph
  • Squeak Documentation Project (SDP)
  • Factoring Squeak 3.4+ into Packages
  • Finding Stewards for Packages

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