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Curious if anyone here has used it and what they think
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The creator of it is reasonably active on the Slack (@Tudor Girba). It has been on my list for a long time, I want to dedicate a decent amount of time to using it because it looks very promising. I only gave it a very quick look so far
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Yes, I played with Glamorous Toolkit recently 🙂. I heard good things about it, too.
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More seriously: @emmy @Chris Knott I’d be happy to provide details should you be interested.
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is there any resource on "gtoolkit for non smalltalkers?"
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that would be nice for people on the fence like me, since I don't know smalltalk I don't know if I would be able to get anything out of it before learning smalltalk
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The environment comes with a set of introductory material (e.g., slideshows) including an introduction to Pharo
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I know that the smalltalk syntax fits in a postcard so that would be a good selling point to show that the learning curve is manageable
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indeed, the syntax does fit on a postcard. And in GT, we have an interactive tool to get you through it, too: https://twitter.com/feenkcom/status/1242760105013248000?s=20
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I think I’m going to learn Pharo just so I can use this. The environment is too compelling
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In any case, we do agree that as the environment gets more and more complete, our focus is shifting towards documentation of all sorts. Just now, there is a course on Software Modeling and Analysis that is based on GT exercises: http://scg.unibe.ch/teaching/sma. It also includes a few demos.
@emmy I am glad it raised an interest.
To learn Pharo, I would suggest to start from the 
Pharo 101
slideshow:
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I have been playing with GToolkit for a while, and it’s my main Pharo UI now. It’s definitely worth a look for anyone interested in user interfaces for computing systems. Not sure how accessible it is without some Pharo background.
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there are a lot of people in the “don’t know smalltalk but interested in GT” club in this very slack. maybe we should form a study group?
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I found http://mooc.pharo.org really useful to get into Smalltalk and Pharo
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Would be down for a Pharo for GT enthusiasts study group
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That mooc looks really good, maybe we could go through that since it’s split up into weeks
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It's via that MOOC that I got started with Pharo in 2018. Recommended!
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there are a lot of people in the “don’t know smalltalk but interested in GT” club in this very slack. maybe we should form a study group?
Count me in! I guess it is the good timing for me to discover both GT and Pharo/SmallTalk. When I came in this Community I have heard of GT, found it very interesting, but (temporarily) skipped it because of missing time. Now I have more time for stuff like that!
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Yeah, I'd be up for joining this study group, too. Would someone be willing to volunteer to organize/lead this group? I could also spin up a dedicated channel for this.
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I’d happily offer help
We will organize a set of live session in the GT Discord community. The next one is an introductory session and will be held on Tuesday, October 13, 5PM CET: https://discord.gg/FTJr9gP You are all welcome to join. Of course, if you’d want to have a dedicated channel here, we’d be happy to offer guidance here as well.
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I've spun up a new channel — #C01CD90V1NF — and sent invites to Tudor plus the handful of folks here who expressed an interest in a study group.
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Great!
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I can help co-organize @Ivan Reese
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