This is a directory for movies at the Smalltalk Medicine Show on YouTube.

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Categories

• Absolute Beginner
• Platform
• Basics
• Tools
• Applications
• Classes
• Resources
• The Story Of Squeak
• Friends Of Smalltalk

Absolute Beginner

• Download & Open - Getting Squeak from the site and opening.
• Accept versus Save - Quit without saving to revert your image back to an earlier state.
• Joe The Box - The classic Smalltalk introduction.
• Operators - The five operators used in Smalltalk.
• Print Do Explore Accept - The four most common commands in Smalltalk.
• Return Value – no comment
• Seven Smalltalk Terms - Seven common pieces of Smalltalk terminology.
• Squeak Tools - A look at three tools constantly used in Squeak: the Browser; the Workspace; and, the Method Finder.
• Variables – no comment

Platform

• Android - Squeak on Android.
• iPad - Adding pictures to the WikiServerPro.
• iPhone - Build an iPhone app with Smalltalk.
• Linux - Installing Squeak in Linux.
• Pharo - A branch from Squeak specializing in web development.

Basics

• Block - no comment
• Class Names - How does the system know what a class is?
• Comment - Comment out code to locate a bug.
• Digging For A Datum - Using the explorer to find a path to a specific datum in an object.
• Encapsulation & Polymorphism - no comment
• Find A String - Finding a string in the Squeak image.
• Files - A look at the two files commonly used in Squeak (.st and .mcz).
• In An Instance - How to see the specific data values in an instance in object memory.
• initialize & new - Friendly, predictable methods to cling to in a system of methods defined by seeming madmen.
• Inheritance & Aggregation - no comment
• Iterators - no comment
• Passing An Object - no comment
• self halt - Set a breakbpoint to see a moment of execution.
• Two Buttons - There are two buttons on the browser window: Instance; and, Class. What are they for?
• setters & getters - Assigning the value to a variable and calling when needed.
• string & symbol - The difference between these two Smalltalk workhorses.
• Sender & Receiver - Who sent that message?

Tools

• Appearance & Prefs - Change the look and feel of Squeak to your taste.
• Browsers - A look at some browsers for exploring the system.
• Browsers - the versions button - Revert a method with the versions button.
• Browsers - RefactoringBrowser - Sophisticated code search tools.
• Browsers - OmniBrowser - A browser with inheritance icons and refactoring menus.
• Debugger - Set a break point and open a debugger with "self halt."
• Installer - Get code programmatically instead of using a GUI.
• Monticello – Desktop - Saving versions of an application in progress locally instead of to an online repository.
• Monticello – Get Code From SqueakSource.com - Using Monticello to get packages from squeaksource.com
• Morphic - Drag & Drop - Drop a morph on top another, and depending on its color, it will embed.
• Morphic - Clickable Morph – Click a morph to change its color.
• Morphic - Make A Morph – Making a morph by drawing on a canvas.
• Projects - Projects to save your desktop and organize your work.
• Shout - Adding text highlighting to make code easier to read.
• Traits - Adding methods to a class without inheritance.
• Transcript - Use the Transcript to see an object as it passes.
• The Trunk - Squeak is being rebuilt and this video shows what people are talking about on the Squeak Dev list when they are discussing The Trunk.
• VNC – Remote desktop for Squeak.
• Wireshark – Packet sniff your own app to better understand HTTP.

Applications

• Cobalt - The 3D world Cobalt which evolved from Croquet.
• Cobalt – Connecting Two Spaces - Post your space location for others to find.
• Cobalt – Default World – Change the default world to something that looks better.
• Cobalt – Avatars & Models - Exploring the content pack
• Comanche – Hello World – The Squeak server.
• Comanche – Modules – no comment
• Croquet - A look at the Croquet 3D world project.
• Croquet – Add A Box – Add a floating box to Simple World.
• Croquet – Drag A Cube – Add a draggable cube to Croquet.
• Etoys - You don't need an OLPC to play with Etoys
• HttpView2 - An easier way to make web pages than Seaside.
• Scratch - An application for students to create Flash-like animations and upload them to the web.
• Scratch hacking 1 - Looking at the source code of the Scratch application.
• Scratch hacking 2 – Embedding a morph into another morph.
• Scratch hacking 3 – Some common morphs provided by Squeak.
• Seaside - Installing 2.8.3 - How to take a standard Squeak image and install the Seaside web framework into it.
• Seaside - Installing 3.0 – Installing the latest version of Seaside using the Metacello package manager.
• Seaside - Hello World - A first app with the Seaside continuation server.
• Seaside - HTML Tags - Use the tests to learn the tags.
• Swazoo - A more recent server than Comanche.
• WebClient/WebServer - A new server for Squeak which presents documentation lessons using a new tool called the HelpBrowser.

Classes

• Dictionary & SortedCollection & cascade – no comment
• POP3Client - Getting email with Squeak.
• HTTPClient - A tale of two clients.
• ReferenceStream - The simplest database.
• Socket & Email - Get a web page as raw text or send an email.
• SocketStream - Use the wrapper SocketStream instead of handling the Socket class directly.
• Streams - ReadStream WriteStream FileStream - Streams are how the image communicates with the outside world by saving data to disk or communicating over a socket.

Resources

• Design Patterns - The book and its Smalltalk companion.
• Squeak By Example - A free pdf book for learning Squeak Smalltalk.
• SqueakSource - The online code repository for Squeak.
• SqueakMap Catalog - Getting packages from all over the internet.
• Squeak Wiki - The online wiki of pages about Squeak.

The Story Of Sqeuak

• ComSwiki - A trip in the time machine to look at a cool Squeak wiki maker.
• Seaside - From Builder To Canvas – How the HTML was modelled in Smalltalk.
• Three Button Mouse – Three button mouse madness.
• Three Repo Madness – Three ways to get code into your browser from the Internet.

Friends Of Smalltalk

• Clamato – HelloWorld - Making JavaScript applications with a Smalltalk dialect.
• Lively Kernel - A GUI made entirely from JavaScript.
• Lively Kernel – Hello World - Programming a JavaScript GUI using a Squeak-like programming environment.
• Lively Kernel – Twin Syntax – Due to OMeta you can program Lively Kernel in any language you want.
• Ometa – JavaScript as Assembly – no comment
• Robots - Using Squeak to build submarines and robots.
• Self – A look at the language Self to create a contrast with Smalltalk.