Hi richard
Another way would be for him to come at ESUG a friendly and small conference this year organized in Slovenia (3 hours from venice:) and meet all kind of smalltalkers and squeakers. Because there I'm sure that in a week he could get a ***lot***, even have his simulation. This is the last week of august in a beautiful country.
Else http://www.iam.unibe.ch/~ducasse/WebPages/SmalltalkSqueak.html There are columns, Squeak quick ref for my next book and all kind of stuff.
and http://www.iam.unibe.ch/~ducasse/WebPages/FreeBooks.html for free online books
Stef
On Thursday, July 31, 2003, at 08:31 PM, Richard Pawson wrote:
Christopher Alexander, author of 'A Pattern Language', wants to write a simulation to demonstrate the ideas in his new series of books 'The Nature of Order' (the first volume is out, and truly outstanding). I have persuaded him that Squeak is the right language to do it in and he's hooked. Chris has not programmed for some years (though he is a mathematician, originally) and needs some tutorial help on the basics of the language.
He'd like to find a fluent Squeaker who'd give him a few hours of voluntary time. Chris is currently living on the South coast of the UK (West Sussex). The ideal would be a grad student in Southampton or Portsmouth Universities. (Anyone know of any Squeakers there I could contact directly?) If this doesn't work, someone on the end of a phone would be acceptable.
This is an opportunity to meet and interact with one of the world's greatest contemporary thinkers. I'm sure we can help him out. (I've offered my help on the OO design side, but I'm not a sufficiently fluent programmer to give him the basics he needs at the beginning.) Just to make it clear, he wants to write the simulation himself, this is not an attempt to get someone to write it for him.
If you can help, or know any contacts who might, please get back to me directly and I'll put you in touch with him.
Richard Pawson
squeak-dev@lists.squeakfoundation.org