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learning how to fish
Last updated at 6:14 am UTC on 11 November 2006
How to save a part bin likes to answer newbie questions by teaching them how to fish rather than giving them the fish. The purpose of this page is to cite different ways of fishing.


"learn how to fish" type posts are posted every so often to the mailing list; capture 'em here!

Lex Spoon January 31, 2004 If you are ever looking at a class and wondering how to use it, try "class refs" from the yellow-button menu when the class is selected. This will show you all the code in the system that mentions the class by name, and thus often leading you to examples of using the class.

In Morphic, you can tear things open and see what is happening under the hood by using the gray halo handle. To get to it, press the blue mouse button until you have the correct morph halo-ed, and then click on the gray circle. Particularly interesting are "inspect morph" and "browse morph class".

If you want places to ask questions, this list is very good. Also, there is a #squeak IRC channel on irc.freenode.net.


[Add more ways here, sunit, examples in classes, browser trails ....]