HitchHikersGuide-Topics.txt

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Hitch Hiker's Guide to Cuis Smalltalk
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Hiking around the image.  Just as with any trail guide, you can take the hikes in any order.


Collected stories..

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Social Context
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- Community in SpaceTime
  + User community; Commoning & the Commons
  + Humanizing computers rather than mechanizing humans
  + Smalltalk object ecosystem as community support & conduit
  + In the larger picture: restabalizing the climate


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Face Time
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- The Smalltalk Language
  + Objects & Messages
  + Syntax on a Postrcard
  + Kinds of Objects
    = Scalars: Numbers; Colors; Strings
    = Composits: Points; Rects; Morphs
    = Collections & Iterators

- The Morphic UI
  + Pixels: Bits on the Screen
  + Graphic Composition
    = Drawing: Z-Order & Damage Rectangles
  + How Graphic Objects know themselves
  + The drawing cycle
    = Time & Timers
    = CPS & simple animations

- MetaProgramming & UI Tools
  + Inspector; Explorer
  + Class Browser
  + Package Browser
  + File List
    = File System
    = Loading formatted files 
	Text; Code; Images; Compression; Unicode

- Correspondence between source and machine code
  + The Smalltalk Dictionary
  + Code views in the Browser

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Under the Covers
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- Object Layout
  + Instance Vars, Arrays
  + Boxing: Immediates, BigNums; Colors
  + Hashing: Dictionaries & Symbols
  + Object Headers & Garbage Collection

- Evaluation
  + Selectors & Method Dictionaries
  + Method Dispatch; PICs
  + Scanner; Parser; Compiler
  + ByteCode; JIT; Native; FFI

- MutlThreading 
  + Stacks & VCPUs
  + Thread-local dynamic variable context
  + Concurrency: Single Core; MultiCore; Cloud & Swarm
  + Interrupts to Events

- Debug
  + Trancript Trace
  + Breakpoints
  + Workspace + Ctrl-D
  + Exceptions, Control Flow & Recovery

- Source Code Management
  + Images; How to save & restore sets of live Objects; clone vs copy
  + Change Files; Packages
  + SCM systems: GIT; Chunk vs Tonel